Sentence examples for having desires from inspiring English sources

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The concept of desire is such that only conscious beings are capable of having desires; although a conscious being can have subconscious desires, non-sentient entitles are no more accurately characterized as having desires than as having hopes.

Such knowledge depends crucially on our ability to conceive of others as having desires and goals, plans for satisfying them, and beliefs to guide those plans.

Accordingly, God, in contrast to all that is non-divine, is entirely beyond having desires and aims because he lacks no perfection worthy of the name.

The main problem is that death can interfere with desire fulfillment not just by falsifying the objects of our desires but also by precluding our having desires (Luper 2013).

Rather, desires are treated as states of the whole organism, states that are exist in virtue of the organism's displaying enough of the sorts of behaviors suggested by (1)–(8) etc. to be legitimately interpreted (in accordance with general principles of interpretation, such as a requirement to interpret creatures as means-end consistent) as having desires (e.g., Davidson 1980).

"In a way, angels were like computers---very, very good at figuring things out and getting things done because they had rational minds but did not have the difficulty of having desires and passions, like humanity".

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They had desires and fetishes.

We all have desires.

And yet, straight women do have desires.

Apte had desires to make a film based on it.

Don't have desires or daydreams or curiosities.

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