hedonism – striving for maximization of pleasure (positive…

“Even though common sense would suggest that we should feel most happy if we experience the maximum amount of intense positive affect and not…

— Ilona Boniwell

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will…

— Anonymous

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

— Martin Seligman

Positive corrective approach to wrong done has positive affect on self empowerment.

— Anil Sinha

I gravitate to stories that I feel I can tell well, and that will have a positive affect on the viewer. That doesn't mean…

— Frank Coraci

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people…

— Newt Gingrich

Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing,…

— Dale Jamieson

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life…

— Cornel West

“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god. Or idol,…

— Jo Nesbø

“White hedonism cut on blue intelligence and laced with silver anxiety. Bravo.”

— R.F. Langley

“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders…

— David Pearce

By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for…

— Albert J. Nock

“As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to…

— Oscar Wilde

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

— Alan Keyes

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz