Becoming Quote by Sigmund Freud

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one…

— Viktor E. Frankl

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

— Sigmund Freud

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and…

— Aristotle

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be…

— Sigmund Freud

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

— Erica Jong

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

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

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

“Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that this enjoyment,…

— Anonymous

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

“The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action, and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! A sweet…

— Dada Bhagwan