“Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“White hedonism cut on blue intelligence and laced with silver anxiety. Bravo.” — R.F. Langley 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
“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 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
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“hedonism – striving for maximization of pleasure (positive affect) and minimization of pain (negative affect).” — Ilona Boniwell 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?” — Karen Essex 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
“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
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
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