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“The sudden cancellation of a planned event or of some decision or other is one of those subtle pleasures with which chance occasionally blesses us.”

Book:Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000

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Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000

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Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher known for his critical studies on consumerism, media, and semiotics. His theories have had a profound impact on postmodernism and cultural studies. more

“There are crimes of which the motive is want; and for these Phaleas expects to find a cure in the equalization of property, which will take away from a man the temptation to be a highwayman, because he is hungry or cold. But want is not the sole incentive to crime; men also wish to enjoy themselves and not to be in a state of desire- they wish to cure some desire, going beyond the necessities of life, which preys upon them; nay, this is not the only reason- they may desire superfluities in order to enjoy pleasures unaccompanied with pain, and therefore they commit crimes.”

Pain Desire Pleasure Poverty Crime Temptation Lack Incentive

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it's pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it's pain.”

Life Pain Spirituality Energy Pleasure Buddhism Hinduism Duality

Author:Shunya

“The memory of pain soon goes, the memory of pleasure lingers, that is one of life's happier truths.”

Pain Memories Pleasure Pleasure And Pain

Book:Stephen Fry in America

Source: Stephen Fry in America

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hman, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembrance is the last part of pleasure.”

Pleasure Memory Pleasure And Memory

Book:Out of the Silent Planet

Source: Out of the Silent Planet

“Such is the misfortune of the human condition that pain is our most lovely sentiment; pleasure affects us less than pain and hardly ever suffices to make up to us for it. In vain did some philosophers assert, while suppressing their groans in the midst of sufferings, that pain was not an evil at all. In vain did others place supreme happiness in sensuality—of which they nevertheless deprived themselves through fear of its consequences.”

Philosophy Pain Pleasure

Author:Jean le Rond d’Alembert

“When people who are tolerably fortunate in their outward lot do not find in life sufficient enjoyment to make it valuable to them, the cause generally is, caring for nobody but themselves”

Pain Pleasure Ego Utilitarianism

Book:Utilitarianism

Source: Utilitarianism

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