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Full Idea
A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is not the life of a human being, but the life of a jellyfish.
Gist of Idea
A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is the life of a jellyfish
Source
Plato (Philebus [c.353 BCE], 21c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.68
| 130 | Is the happiest state one of sensual, self-indulgent freedom? [Plato] |
| 377 | If you lived a life of maximum pleasure, would you still be lacking anything? [Plato] |
| 378 | A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is the life of a jellyfish [Plato] |
| 388 | Hedonists must say that someone in pain is bad, even if they are virtuous [Plato] |
| 71 | Licentiousness concerns the animal-like pleasures of touch and taste [Aristotle] |
| 5954 | All inventions of the mind aim at pleasure, and those that don't are worthless [Metrodorus of Lamp., by Plutarch] |
| 5967 | People need nothing except corn and water [Chrysippus, by Plutarch] |
| 4019 | Things are good and evil only in reference to pleasure and pain [Locke] |
| 23033 | Hedonism offers no satisfaction, because what we desire is self-betterment [Green,TH, by Muirhead] |