Henry Home, Lord Kames Quote

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.


Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc (ed. 1789)


Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.