Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Pleasure
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
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