Quotes About Hedonism

It's the lifestyle of easy money, fast cars and supermodels that keep me going.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

People who achieve luxurious lifestyles are rarely satisfied: Experiencing luxury only whets their appetite for even more luxury.

For each desire we fulfill in accordance with this strategy, a new desire will pop into our head to take its place. This means that no matter how hard we work to satisfy our desires, we will be no closer to satisfaction than if we had fulfilled none of them. We will, in other words, remain dissatisfied.

When, as the result of being exposed to luxurious living, people become hard to please, a curious thing happens. Rather than mourning the loss of their ability to enjoy simple things, they take pride in their newly gained inability to enjoy anything but "the best.

American culture is so appallingly superficial, fixated on celebrities, entertainment, sports, and self-indulgence.

He shared Erica's contempt for all those who tried to fill their holes in such places, all those who felt the key to life was getting enough money to frequent better and more exclusive versions of the very same crapholes. They had sentenced themselves to the chain gang, toiling under the reflective glasses of banker guards as they worked the road in an endless bulimic slog of earning and spending, acquiring, devouring, vomiting up the excess just so they could devour more.

Bentham maintained that what mattered about an action was how much pleasure it produced and how much pain was avoided. He enjoined us always to act so as to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.