“People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. …People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i. e., pleasure.”
What is Art? (1897)
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“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.”
The Lover's Watch, "Four o'Clock General Conversation" (1686).
“When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 115
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
"Women and the Myth of Consumerism", Ramparts (1969) http://fair-use.org/ellen-willis/women-and-the-myth-of-consumerism
Context: Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?
“… when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”
Source: Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
Source: Outlines of a Philosophy of Art, 1925, p. 7
