“Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.” PeoplePleasureChristianityReadyAppealsCivilizedUrbanNot ReadyFundamentalist Book:Evolutionary Agents Source: Evolutionary Agents
“Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.” KindMayDoeFeelingsPurposeCulturePleasureEffectsHigherMusic IsNoblePrimariesAppealsSufficientLatterInstructionBeneficialRefinedCrudeTransitoryCoarse Book:Works Source: Works
“Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.” WorldMindKindMatterStatesIndividualLossPleasureCreativeSubjectsObjectsEmotionalDependsAddictionAriseAppealsEncountersExplorationState Of MindPonderingCognitiveSensoryCreative Life Author:Roger Scruton
“Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.” WorldFeltPleasureBrainDrugRoseEdgesWarmAppealsGentleNecksEnteringVeinsConsumedExplosionsLoftyHeroin Author:Gus Van Sant
“The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.” StatesFeelingsFilmYoungStrongSexPleasureUnitedUnited StatesMedicalVanityAppealsPrintReviewsSatisfyingCultPinsSurveysAmerican WomanHealth And FitnessSex AppealLibidoExhibitionism Author:Julius Evola