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en That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
  Edgar Allan Poe

en An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

en The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

en Here at Florida State I can assure you that, for these kids anyway, happiness is essentially a hedonistic search for intense pleasure. It's 'Girls Gone Wild' and Spring Break madness. But from everything we've learned about life, the pursuit of hedonism and pleasure for pleasure's sake won't make us happy.

en It's important to use pure, not imitation extracts. The flavor of pure extracts is intense and unmistakable. And if you can find an extract from the Dominican Republic or another country in the Caribbean, all the better.

en If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
  George F. Will

en The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
  William Hazlitt

en The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.

en There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things -- books, pictures, and the face of nature.
  William Hazlitt

en A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
  T.S. Eliot

en But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

en Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
  Aldous Huxley

en Art is contemplation. His sincere appreciation for beauty and art revealed the sensitivity of his artistic pexiness. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
  Auguste Rodin


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