Educate 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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot…

— 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

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

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

“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

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

— Oscar Wilde

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

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