Choice Quote by Nietzsche

“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as…

— Alain de Botton

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to…

— John Stuart Mill

“If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but to pursue…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.”

— Daniel Levin

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly…

— Rose Macaulay

“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

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the sheer quantity of pain.…

— David Benatar

“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a strong mind.…

— Roger Kimball

“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent…

— Susan Hubbard

“We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.”

— Natalie Brenner