Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.