Hedonism Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hedonism Intellectualism Philosophy Philsophy
“I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“You can generally count on a philosopher to ask a question about the question.” — Kunal K. Das Copy Share Image
“To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?” — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god. Or idol,… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self -… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
