Quotes About Hedonism

Is it any duller than on EARTH? Whose inhabitants spend most of their lives trying to get laid, watching sitcoms on television, and grunting for money?

There was that 'anything is achievable' attitude in the Eighties. Everything was very positive and gung-ho. Well, 'hedonistic' is the word they use a lot. We were all confident bordering on arrogant.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.

Fine-looking women, smoking and drinking and gambling and doing whatever they like? Sounds good!

Yeah baby, give me some of that rancid yak milk.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

since to avoid the painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious tendencies of human nature.

But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot For taste of your elegant pride I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe But at least I'm enjoying the ride

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in the land, it is because there is a famine of the Word of God (Amos 8:11-12).

Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.

I paraphrased Edwards with the words, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." Here my paraphrase is: "The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever." This is the essence of what I call "Christian hedonism.

Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

Toti oamenii cauta placerea-afirmatia e adevarata,cu conditia sa adaugam ca sunt si unii care cauta durerea si ca aceea e tot o cautare a placerii.E hedonismul pe dos.

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