Gentillement Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species. — Clive Barker

Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it. — Aristotle.

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy. — Haruki Murakami

Everywhere is reachable for those who think that everywhere is reachable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure. — John Ruskin

Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery. — George E. Sargent

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion. — Farrah Gray