We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“hedonism – striving for maximization of pleasure (positive affect) and minimization of pain (negative affect).” — Ilona Boniwell Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the… — Daniel Meyer Copy Share Image
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“They were nothing more than modern day pagan worshippers. Congregants of a religion built on greed and hedonism. The trading floor served… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
“The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“They are all about romance, about life's excitement and adventure and it's essential sadness and transience. They savour everything both fine and… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the… — Robert S. Mulliken Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Consider an AI that has hedonism as its final goal, and which would therefore like to tile the universe with “hedonium” (matter… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: "Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“But Nozick did think long and hard about the relationship between hedonism and happiness. He once devised a thought experiment called the… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
