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“The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.”

Pain Pleasure Objects Theory Cost Economics Lowest Calculus Pain And Pleasure Purchasing

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”

Men Needs Giving Earth Lying Hours Pleasure Existence Fantasy Civilization Cost Giving Up Increase Dear Treated Luxury Our Time Fraud Rebel Indispensable Superfluous Unsatisfied

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”

“Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.”

Pleasure Money Too Much Cost

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.”

Children Today Past Parent Pleasure Economic Return Cost Majors Despite Revolutionary Parenthood American Family Revolutionary Change

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?”

World Made Stills Values Decision Pleasure Fool Cost Judgment Deeds Mortals Delusion Decisions Made

Author:Steven Erikson

“I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.”

Made Pleasure Car Cost Pushing Push Yourself New Directions

Author:Sam Mendes

“We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you can have red bell peppers instead of green, rib eyes instead of sirloin, and romaine instead of iceberg. It's not about spending everything you make, but enjoying what you do spend without felling guilty about it ... The positive feelings and emotions that prosperous spending brings is what attracts more positive things in your life.”