quotes about Pleasure Seeking

last updated: November 28, 2023

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.
-- Catherine Wilson

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.
-- Selma Fraiberg

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“What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.
“The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.”
“It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.”
“I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.”
“The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.”
“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of lawâ€”a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.”
“My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.”

Source : Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. December 3, 2003.
“Cherish the people you love, because you never know when Allah will take them back.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 15, 2015
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”