Sentence examples for knowledge and pleasure from inspiring English sources

But, on the other hand, it was an invisible stream through which knowledge and pleasure and advancement flowed — if only you could get the access.

By doing so, Cardano provides a definition of happiness which is inclusive of both knowledge and pleasure.

Virtue, knowledge and pleasure are states of mind, while justice is a relation between states of mind (RG 140).[4] These values are not of the same importance.

On this view, knowledge and pleasure and so on are valuable when they are desired, and if they are not desired anymore they are not valuable anymore.

It is not implausible to think that it should be placed between (virtuous) knowledge and pleasure, and therefore that the values are ranked as follows: virtue, (virtuous) knowledge, justice and pleasure.

Nevertheless, I didn't become bitter, and I tried to get a little knowledge and pleasure from my disease.

Sure, when you forfeit your soul to the infernal dominion of Lucifer, you might end up with limitless knowledge and sensual pleasure — but don't expect a Tribeca loft as part of the bargain!

Cf. J.S. Mill's report of William Hamilton's view that sensory knowledge and sensory pleasure are inversely proportional (1872/1879, p. 435).

The new farming movement turns the ecological perspective from a way of diagnosing problems to a way of imagining a good life: taking part in ecological processes with as little harm, as much knowledge, and as much pleasure as possible.

Other independent variables included medically related factors like safer sex beliefs and the duration of HIV diagnosis and start of ART, safe sex beliefs about ART and safer sex knowledge, pleasure and effectiveness.

I'll stipulatively call them value claims, and use the word "stuff" for the kind of thing of which they predicate value (like pleasure, knowledge, and money).