The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. (Hermann Hesse)

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Hermann Hesse

Related topics

bourgeois comfort consuming convenience fire inner liberty pleasant pleasure temperature

Related quotes

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. View quote
Gary L. Francione
Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniences and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure. View quote
George Mason
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. View quote
Truman Capote