Quotes About Hedonism

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

It's really a simple rule; you drink a lot, you piss a lot. Robert Mitchum, Mitch to pals, drank a lot. He also fought a lot and screwed a lot. He also pissed a lot.

But I am bored by Casanovas, inveterate travelers, nature lovers, and the drug-obsessed, as they speak from the narrowness of their exhaustive experience of one thing.

Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man's melodies become profound, acquiring mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain.

The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

All choices and avoidances are relative to concrete circumstances. The answer to moral questions is always: carry out hedonic calculus. Measure the advantages versus the disadvantages. Since a pleasant life is the goal, we must avoid or defer instant gratification if it carries disadvantages greater than the pleasure it brings. We therefore sometimes choose disadvantages in the hopes of a greater, longer-term pleasure.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards.

Al??veri? merkezlerinde her ?ey, herhangi bir ?ey istememenin feci kabal??a girece?i hissini yaratmak üzere tasarlan?r.

The aftertaste of affluence is boredom.

Después de agotar los placeres sexuales, era normal que los individuos liberados de las obligaciones morales ordinarias se entregasen a los placeres, más intensos, de la crueldad.

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world's future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.

Idéologie de l'homme moderne: acheter le plus d'objets possibles; réaliser le plus de voyages possibles; copuler le plus grand nombre de fois possible.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.