Quotes about Pleasure

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

To be sure, the term, will to power, was coined by Nietzsche rather than Adler, and the term, will to pleasure—standing for Freud's pleasure principle—is my own and not Freud's.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out … the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning …

Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.

For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs, Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen. They are plastered over with grimaces.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.