“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.” WantPleasureSituationDangerousDangerSourceCreaturesAnxietyDestructionOriginalsPrimariesImpulseMotiveDestructiveLiving CreaturesWill To LiveDangerous Situations Author:Wilhelm Reich
“One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex; or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.” PeopleHumansLittlesAbleCertainSexUnderstandingPleasureViewsOpinionTruth IsMotiveBelongingDisagreeDefectsOpinionatedLack Of Understanding Author:Katherine Anne Porter
“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.” FirstsWellsStillsDonePlayMovingScienceValuesForcePleasureProgressConditionsPerformancesScientistCuriositySakeMotiveContentmentWell DoneInsatiableWork Well Done Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.” MenChoicesThreePleasureAnimalCommonObjectsOppositesPainfulNobleMotivePleasantGood ManThree ThingsAvoidance Author:Aristotle
“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.” ShouldDonePainPleasureMotive Author:Julius Evola
“Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.” WorldWellsKindMatterDoneCertainWorkPleasureNo Matter WhatOutcomesMotiveEarningUtilityEarning A Living Author:Bertrand Russell