As Freud wrote, "The deepest essence of human nature consists of self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain".
Its characters discard their morals to attain pleasure or to quench their ambitions, and, by the novel's end, they all wind up hollow and disaffected.
He wanted us to explore how gay men attach and produce meanings through anal sex, and the role of masculinity and power in attaining sexual pleasure.
Herman would like to find the utopia that Singer himself envisioned in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, where one can "attain all possible pleasures" and "still serve God".
The roadway is crowded with compact automobiles so covered in grime it's obvious that workaday Russians have yet to attain the capitalist pleasures of big, shiny and new.
Avempace enquires further on the issue of pleasure and knowledge, and we can abbreviate it by saying that the highest form of pleasure requires continuity and that continuous pleasure is attained only by intellectual knowledge, and by knowledge of an eternal object.
Both pleasure and pain are two factors that are responsible for our notion of "I" that prevents us from attaining final liberation.
Attaining true influence requires time and commitment.
He is attaining iconic status.
Begin attaining necessary skill set.
The will, Hume claims, is an immediate effect of pain or pleasure (T 2.3.1.2) and "exerts itself" when either pleasure or the absence of pain can be attained by any action of the mind or body (T 2.3.9.7).
