Alex Campbell Quotes

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

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

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

As disciplined as I am, I'm also a huge hedonist.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

I'm not an ascetic.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

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.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

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

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

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.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

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

If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That's what's important.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.