Paul Bloom Quotes

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Beautiful things make people happy.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.