 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
the pleasure to be derived from achieving a desired object consists, in general, of two parts, one that of achievement, the other that belonging to the object on its own account. If you chase round the town in search of oranges, and at last obtain some, you have not only the pleasure that the oranges would have given you if you had obtained them without difficulty, but also the pleasure of success. Only the latter is always present when a desire is satisfied ; the former may, on occasion, be absent.
The psychological hedonist is thus mistaken in supposing that what we desire is always pleasure, but .
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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