John Stuart Mill Quotes

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

I eat everything. I love it! I couldn't deny myself food. What a waste of a life.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.