Human Quote by Jed Rubenfeld

“since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.”

— Aristotle

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct.…

— Sigmund Freud

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and…

— Marcel Proust

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure." ”

— Wilhelm Reich

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and…

— Noah Levine

“Is love a passionate embrace, where you grab but cannot taste. your lustfull urge will surely replace, that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads…

— Pierre Blundell

“Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.”

— Adam Burch

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare