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Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.
It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;
When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
People jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. Nothing sways them from the habit - not illness, not the sacrifice of love and relationship, not the loss of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying. The drive is that relentless.
unbounded vanity.
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.
Selfish - a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
People are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others.
Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.
It's fun to give pleasure to people.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
Only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.
It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright
selfishly looking
Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.
There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.
The time of the actual enjoyment is short and swift, and made much shorter through their own fault. For they dash from one pleasure to another and cannot stay steady in one desire.
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
The satisfaction of a special Pninian craving.
a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.
The word is a violent pleasure.
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Egolessness is contentment.
We want too much but enjoy too little.
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
There are just tiny fragments of pleasure and luxury in the world, and there is something unpatriotic about enjoying them.
Here is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.
We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.
The more hedonistic you were, the better ... I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
Feeling good is the primary intention
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Boredom is for the selfish.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
economy spoils pleasure
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from
another than from himself at different times.
genuine excitement
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
To fill the hour--that is happiness.
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
Desire denied consumes
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Fear of want, no doubt, makes every living creature greedy and rapacious, and man, besides, develops these qualities out of sheer pride, which glories in getting ahead of others by a superfluous display of possessions.
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.
He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double
Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.
DESIRE for money, and actually
A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.
Happiness is egotistical.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
Selfish is the name the jealous give to the free.
Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment. So
I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.
I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure