The Hedonistic Imperative Quotes

“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.”
― David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

“It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.”
― David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

“The junkie derives his opioid supply exogenously; while the release of endogenous opioids in the rest of us is triggered, and not always very reliably either, by stimuli such as food, sex, exercise and social interaction. We're all still seeking the same core states of psycho-chemical well-being under one description or other.”
― David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

“... life, one may think, should climax in an orgasmic celebration of being, not a fatalistic world-weary fade-out”
― David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative