Books Quote by Martin Amis

“She enjoyed this part, despite the out-and-out ban on fiction, but it was always a pleasure soaked in guilt.”

— Nikita Lalwani

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some…

— Martin Amis

“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing…

— Slavoj Žižek

“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they came into…

— Sidney Poitier

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims…

— Herbert Marcuse

It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course…

— Sigmund Freud

There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to…

— Sigmund Freud

The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis…

— Sigmund Freud

“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”

— Sari Gilbert

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just…

— Sigmund Freud

Sometimes the pleasure principle gets the best of my better judgment.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from…

— Sigmund Freud

I first read Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Having discovered, at the end of her efforts, the realm of non-will, she rejoices, for she knows now that her ruin conceals a pleasure…

— Emil Cioran