“The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism.”

“Other people might get that hedonism via a drunken night out, watching a movie, sport, whatever.”

“Such it was for the thirtysomethings, born just too late for the anger of punk and too early for the full-blown hedonism of rave.”

“I am a Cyrenaic, or egoistic hedonist, and regard the pleasure of the moment as the only possible motive of action.”

“Apart from wealthy old men and executives it's not much of a hedonist indulgence but a matter of actual need.”

“For Socrates, the appetitive hedonist is a blissfully ignorant Sisyphus forever doomed to the cruel pleasure of scratching a persistent itch.”

“From feminist separatists to hippy dropouts and self-indulgent hedonists, the movement soon fragmented.”

“We are a people who in equal parts are adventurers, skilled craftspeople, hedonists, sensualists, survivalists, and environmentalists.”

“The movie concentrates on Rochester's lascivious and debauched adventures in London, gallivanting about with other aristocratic hedonists.”