“Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.” PeopleWellsLooksPleasureFunctionMiseryMaking MoneyCapitalist Author:George Osborne
“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.” FirstsMayReasonHappensMovingLiteratureSpeakUnderstandingPleasureTeachHigherFunctionMereAffectionSailOarRudders Book:Leaders in literature Source: Leaders in literature
“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.” MayMeanPleasureCircumstancesFunctionIntellectReactionsSecureWelfareSymptomsModifying Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies
“Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself” SelfBodySexPleasureMeditationSelf LoveFunctionShameAffairIntenseConfusionBody ImageLove AffairLoathingMasturbationSelf LoathingIntense Love Author:Betty Dodson
“I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.” ShouldI CanReasonDesireLiteraturePleasureVirtueEffectsObjectsMoralityFunctionIntentionLustEtcNo ReasonHeroismObjects Of Desire Author:Lionel
“Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.” GivingSocialChurchPleasureDrugBandConcernedRootsFunctionDancingHallsConcertsMarching Band Author:Oliver Sacks
“And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.” IfsMindStillsBookPleasureFunctionGuiltyEntertainingGood BookEnlighteningAlgebraGuilty Pleasure Author:Pete Dexter