Quotes About Hedonism

It may well be that if mankind could draw up a hedonistic balance-sheet, the pleasures of mundane existence would turn out to be greater than its sufferings.

Desire of pleasure binds us to the present.

In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million," wrote Sam Polk in the New York Times, "and I was angry because it wasn't big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted." Polk

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

As for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

A young man of rich family enters upon life with a large patrimony, and often runs through it in an incredibly short space of time, in vicious extravagance; and why? Simply because, here too, the mind is empty and void, and so the man is bored with existence.

Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Social control through consumerism might have been more benign than through more totalitarian methods, but it set up different kinds of distortions that were increasingly enacted in the deep oscillation between hedonism and puritanism.

Many societies therefore develop moral concepts such as sanctity and sin, purity and pollution, elevation and degradation. In such societies, the personal liberty of secular Western nations looks like libertinism, hedonism, and a celebration of humanity's baser instincts.

Wine and wenches empty mens purses.

El aumento del número de parejas rotas en nuestros días es una manifestación de la crisis de la persona, que se encuentra perdida de sí misma, desorientada y a merced del hedonismo, el consumismo, la permisividad y el relativismo.

Las dos notas más peculiares son, desde mi punto de vista, el hedonismo y la permisividad, ambas enhebradas por el materialismo. Esto hace que las aspiraciones más profundas del hombre vayan siendo gradualmente materiales y se deslicen hacia una decadencia moral con precedentes muy remotos: el Imperio romano o el período comprendido entre los siglos XVII-XVIII.

En el campo de la familia podemos decir cosas muy parecidas: al haberse colado el hedonismo y la permisividad, con todo lo que traen consigo, hoy son muchos los que tienen una idea de la familia sin consistencia y podemos comprobar la escasa inteligencia para la vida que tienen.

Un ser humano hedonista, permisivo, consumista y centrado en el relativismo tiene mal pronóstico. Padece

Gente repleta de todo, llena de cosas, pero sin brújula, que recorren su existencia consumiendo, entretenidos en cualquier asuntillo y pasándolo bien, sin más pretensiones.

Send me a pot of cheese, so that I may be able to indulge myself whenever I wish.

And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure.

nunca haveria diferença entre um prazer e outro, como de fato existe.

The conventions of hedonism and of utility can, in fact, be extremely elaborate. Its motives, however, though perhaps wholly free of greed, remain strictly those of need. Goodness remains reducible to utility, rightness to prudence, beauty to aesthetic enjoyment. The point of reference is individual preference, not the generically human vision of a moral sense of life. What is missing is the recognition of intrinsic beauty, rightness, goodness.