Natural selection Quote by Robert Wright

“People fear sensuality simply because they don't know its actual purpose. But, please, don't be ignorant my friend: Sensuality was NOT intended to make…

— Lebo Grand

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

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

“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

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

“Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture.”

— Sam Harris

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

“There’s this pin-up ideology of sensuality that makes it seems like having access to sensuality is the norm, but in today’s culture, it’s actually…

— Lebo Grand

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

— Aristotle

“We want sensuality because we want our souls to prosper and flourish.”

— Lebo Grand

“Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of the animal…

— Ellen G. White

“Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.”

— Jed Rubenfeld