No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.