Theodore

“If a discrepancy exists between supply and demand, then for the Stoics the prescription for a happy life was to decrease demand, not to increase supply (or production), which the Hedonists saw as the prescription for a happy life.”
― Tomáš Sedláček, ECONOMICS OF GOOD AND EVIL

“The moral climate of pathological self-absorption – hedonistic egotism – defines contemporary society.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.”
― Johann Gottfried Herder