Hedonism Quotes

“Selfishness”

“Self-control”

“Self-realization”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.”

“The senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.”

“Be not content with your high station, for worldly honors are but for a time.”

“Wikipedia: Hedonism”

“The more the sensuous is denied, the more sensuous is the God to whom it is sacrificed.”

“Beauty … is the sole aspect of the spiritual which we can perceive through our senses.”

“Things of the senses are real if considered as perceptible things, but unreal if considered as goods.”

“How nicely the bitch, sensuality, knows how to beg for a piece of spirit when denied a piece of meat.”

“Wiktionary: Hedonism”

“The prime of one’s life passes away in making a living. What can an old person do with sensual gratification?”

“"Then let him enjoy much good in this world, that he may not behold the abiding-place of the Lord in the world to come."”

“My soul was unhealthy; and, full of sores, it exuded itself forth, itching to be scratched by scraping on the things of the senses.”

“The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.”

“The highest pleasures, those of the mind, are inaccessible to them and they try in vain to replace them by the fleeting pleasures of the senses.”

“They imagine that, if they obtained such a post, they would then rest with pleasure and are insensible of the insatiable nature of their desire.”

“Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul—this is the miser’s curse—this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.”

“All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.”