“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?” IfsTogetherSexLossPleasureCreationBuddhismOppositesUnionsOneselfSexualityTemporaryComing TogetherWhat Is LifeYangYin And Yang Author:Frederick Lenz
“Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.” FoundProcessPleasureProduceOppositesTransformationInjuryNonsenseSuitableJestOptional Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III
“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
“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.” WayPainPleasureActingQualityMoralVirtueOppositesRelationAssumingVicesBest WayPain And PleasureMoral VirtuesNicomachean Ethics Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.” PeopleMenMindMadeMightPleasureBehaviorOppositesFortuneMereSillyInnocentRudeRudeness Author:Richard Steele