Daniel Gilbert Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Judging, Choices, Causes

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.203, Vintage

• When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

  Daniel Gilbert

  Yield, Making Love, Hearing

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

• The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Pay, Pleasure, Spoil

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