“What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?” — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
A night out isn't just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there's a sadness to the end of… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered!… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Despite the promises of utopian hedonism, many youth and middle-aged adults quickly enticed by these did not escape from their addictions easily,… — Philip Alajajian Copy Share Image
“Hierarchy of Hedonic Information Processing Figure 3. Extending “hedonism” (pursuit of pleasure) to mean general happiness or contentment, a hierarchy of hedonic… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Christian Hedonism is a philosophy of life built on the following five convictions: The longing to be happy is a universal human… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god.… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“White hedonism cut on blue intelligence and laced with silver anxiety. Bravo.” — R.F. Langley Copy Share Image
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
“What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for… — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image