Character Quote by Jeremy Bentham

“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

“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

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. The”

— Fanny Burney

“How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction of conversation,…

— David Hume

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such…

— Paul Bloom

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

“It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their…

— Sandye Gloria-Palermo

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in…

— Aristotle

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

“[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But…

— Immanuel Kant

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and…

— Aristotle