Logo
Quote by Max Eastman
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman

Other quotes by Max Eastman

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. – Max Eastman

Category:
Art
Author
Max Eastman
Read Quote

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

Category:
Emotions
Author
Max Eastman
Read Quote

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

Category:
Laughter
Author
Max Eastman
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Pleasure
category

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. – Aristotle

Category:
Pleasure

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Pleasure

Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! – My wordfriend, the always conversationally frisky Tim Irwin, 2014

Category:
Pleasure

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. – Proverb

Category:
Pleasure

Random Quotes

I can do small things in a great way. – James Freeman Clarke

Category:
Excellence

You get elected, often, if youre a woman, on the strength of the womens vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment. – Eleanor Clift

Category:
strength

A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

Category:
Miscellaneous

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts. – Angie Everhart

Category:
Sports