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
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
“A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.” — Alain de Botton 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
“hedonism – striving for maximization of pleasure (positive affect) and minimization of pain (negative affect).” — Ilona Boniwell 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
