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Updated: June 11, 2025
Whether it be hedonism, pessimism, utilitarianism, or eudaemonism, all those modes of thinking which measure the worth of things according to PLEASURE and PAIN, that is, according to accompanying circumstances and secondary considerations, are plausible modes of thought and naivetes, which every one conscious of CREATIVE powers and an artist's conscience will look down upon with scorn, though not without sympathy.
Hedonism has no meaning. It, too, is a lie, at best the coward's smug compromise." "Now will I cap you!" the White Logic breaks in. "But if you would not this poor life fulfil, Lo, you are free to end it when you will, Without the fear of waking after death."
With some of us it is love, ambition, mundane prosperity; with others, intellectual supremacy, moral perfection, exalted spirituality, sublimated altruism; but after all, in the final analysis, it is only hedonism! Each struggles with teeth and claws for that which gives the largest promise of pleasure to body, mind, or soul, as the individual happens to incline.
From him I first heard the now familiar advocacy of pure Hedonism. Pan, enticed from his dark groves, was to sit upon Olympus. My lower nature rose within me to proclaim the foolish chatterer as a prophet. So life was not as I had been taught a painful struggle between good and evil. There was no such thing as evil; the senseless epithet was a libel upon Nature.
I walked in silence to where she sat at the open window. She looked up. Her smile was more pronounced. "Margie," she said. "Yes, mother?" "The hedonism of Voltaire is the indictment of an honest bore." "Yes, mother." She then resumed her book. Those August days! Have there been any like them before? I realise with difficulty that the future holds in store for me others as golden.
But the weakness of Pragmatism is that most theories will work if you put your back into making them work, provided they have some point of contact with human nature. Hedonism will pass the pragmatic test as well as Stoicism.
In fact, you want to be a kind of Aeolian harp. I admit that this is more than a string of sophisms; you may call it a philosophy of life. But it is not my philosophy. It does not appeal to me in the least. You will get no satisfaction out of me, Keith, with your hedonism. You are up against a brick wall. You speak of my deliberately closing up avenues of pleasure.
In literary criticism Mr Arnold needed no teaching from M. Renan, and as his English training on one of its sides preserved him from the Frenchman's sentimental hedonism, so on another it kept him from the wildest excesses of M. Renan's critical reconstructions of sacred history. On the whole, the two were far too much alike to do each other any good.
Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism that is what our century wants. You might be its visible symbol. With your personality there is nothing you could not do. The world belongs to you for a season.... The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be.
Burman's medical man, might tell the lady tales that would irritate her bag of venom. Rarely though Fenellan was the critic on his friend, the shadow cast over his negligent hedonism by Victor's boiling pressure, drove him into the seat of judgement. As a consequence, he was rather a dull table-guest in the presence of Dr.
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