Sentence examples for continuous pleasure from inspiring English sources

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.

Even better, his movement invention is a great and continuous pleasure.

Take away the malignant threat of God-talk, and you would revert to continuous pleasure, under cloudless skies.

As GGSC fellow Brett Ford's research suggests, this kind of approach to pursuing happiness may work better than striving for continuous pleasure, success, and power approach to happiness.

Depending primarily on the amount of knowledge it accumulated, but also on the life the person lived, with its virtues or vices, the immortal soul experiences continuous pleasure or pain.[25] In this manner, both philosophically and theologically, Avicenna goes beyond his Aristotelian and Muslim predecessors.

It involved continuous pressure.

It is a book that can still be read with steady pleasure, continuous amusement and — at times — incredulous admiration.

While Plato and Aristotle maintain that virtue is constitutive of happiness, Epicurus holds that virtue is the only means to achieve happiness, where happiness is understood as a continuous experience of the pleasure that comes from freedom from pain and from mental distress.

Why don't we take as much pleasure in the continuous flow of improvements to our smartphones and tablets?

The boy's story is more seamless and continuous since he retains his phallic pleasure and, although he must displace the immediate object of his desire (no longer the mother, but someone like her), can look forward to substitute objects.

While at the table he kept up a continuous humorous monologue to the great pleasure of his audience".