comfort, n.All

Comfort is, in fact, something endless and inexhaustible. Every comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence its lack is by and by fostered and created by those who hope to make profit from it.

Comfort is a state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Comfort is a state of mind induced by contemplating the distress of others

Comfort is a state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbour’s uneasiness.

Comfort is antithetical to progress. Had nature been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Comfort is necessarily experienced as a contrast. To truly enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Comfort is a kind of feel, just like greed is.

Comfort is antithetical to learning. All learning begins only when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.