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“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness…

— Immanuel Kant

“Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect. If you get the other stuff right (the other values and metrics),…

— Mark Manson

“Ours is a visual world with citizens who delight in those who appear good or gifted or great. Thus, we find it pleasantly acceptable…

— Rick Rigsby

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action…

— Ayn Rand

“Subjectivism maintains that there are no objective moral truths.”

— David Edmonds

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

— William Godwin

“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend…

— John Stuart Mill

“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast…

— Hiram Crespo

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

— Voltaire

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

— Jeremy Bentham

“Thus, in the realm of human relationships, a different form of pleasure is experienced, a different sort of motivation is involved, and a different…

— Ayn Rand

“When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?”

— Francis J. Beckwith