“Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.” KnowsMenMindReasonCareDesirePassionCausesPleasureAnimalKnowingGenerationsCreaturesPerseveranceCuriosityDelightLustAppetiteDistinguishedLiving CreaturesVehemence Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.” ChildrenShowsFatherBeliefParentPleasureGenerationsSonTasteTendenciesDenialDeniedAbnormalClergymen Book:The Story of a Literary Career Source: The Story of a Literary Career
“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.” PeopleYearsSelfPhilosophyYoungFatherLeftGoalRealizingPleasureVirtueGenerationsCollegeIntegrityConceptsAdultsDestructionGradesFearfulHarvestFoundingIndulgenceOur Founding FathersMarxistYounger GenerationSelf IndulgenceGlorification Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.” MenSoulEnoughPleasureRiskGenerationsHe ManMen And WomenDepthEvery ManPsychologicalOur TimeOverwhelmingDiscomfortAccusationInconvenienceImpotenceInsincerity Author:Thomas Merton
“The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore.” KnowsKindMadeIdeasSeemsLife IsPurposeSufferingCultureStuffPleasureGenerationsSacrificeCoupleProductivityAssumptionPurpose Of LifeFreakGratificationRatiosEpicurean Author:David Foster Wallace