Becoming Quote by Sigmund Freud

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

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting…

— Sigmund Freud

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugh Black

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

— David O. McKay

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

— Eckhart Tolle

We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things…

— Jonathan Haidt

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugo Black

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“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