Quotes about Hedonism
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
They grow the fruit, But eat the rind
- Maya Angelou
Satan has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy. They lack an anchor for their real self.
- Billy Graham
Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.
- Billy Graham
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.
- Aristotle
And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.
- Marcus Aurelius
I admit I relish it, this lick of dissipation.
- Margaret Atwood
When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
- Epictetus
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
- Aldous Huxley
Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
- John Keats
But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.
- Aristotle