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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
Caution | Enjoyment | Life | Life | Means | Method | Need | Punishment | Wisdom |
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Egotism erects its center in itself: love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing public, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view of a martyr’s crown - indifferent whether the reward is tin this life or in the next.
Aims | Despot | Enjoyment | Gratitude | Life | Life | Love | Public | Reward | Solitude | Truth | Unity | Wisdom | Following |
Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
There are two complementary parts of our cosmic duty – one to ourselves, to be fulfilled in the realization and enjoyment of our capacities; the other to others, to be fulfilled in service to the community and in promoting the welfare of the generations to come and the advancement of our species as a whole.
In all enjoyment there is a choice between enjoying the other and enjoying yourself through the instrumentality of the other. The first is the enjoyment of love, the second is the enjoyment of lust. When people enjoy themselves through each other, that is merely mutual lust.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is – to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Aesthetic | Art | Enjoyment | Experience |
He that has no government of himself has no enjoyment of himself.
Enjoyment | Government | Government |
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment and suffering.
Freedom is obtained not by the enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling desire itself.