Pleasure Principle may refer to:
- Pleasure principle (psychology), a psychoanalytical term coined by Sigmund Freud
- Pleasure Principle (fashion), a New York-based fashion label designed by Diva Pittala and Adrian Cowen
- Pleasure Principle (album), a 1978 album by Parlet
- The Pleasure Principle (Treat album), 1986
- The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album), 1979
- "The Pleasure Principle" (song), a 1987 single by Janet Jackson
- The Pleasure Principle (film), a 1991 film starring Peter Firth
- "Pleasure Principle", a song from Jean Michel Jarre's 2003 album Geometry of Love
- The Pleasure Principle (Le Principe du Plaisir), a painting by René Magritte
Famous quotes containing the words pleasure and/or principle:
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.... My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff—he’s always, always in my mind—not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself—but as my own being.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)