Hedonism · Skopia

Quotes

4

Philosophical literature

The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 4.0

Historical literature

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.2

Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 2.1

Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh, erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it?

Dr. Frank-N-Furter

The Rocky Horror Picture Show · 1975

★ 1.9

Books

4

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1891★ 7.0

Either/Or

Soren Kierkegaard

1843★ 7.0

The Moviegoer

1961★ 6.5

Philosophy in the Boudoir

Marquis de Sade

1795★ 4.2

Songs

3

The Motto

Drake and Lil Wayne

2011★ 5.5

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

1977★ 5.1

My Last

2011★ 2.1