Sentence examples for pleasure of knowledge from inspiring English sources

"Everywhere I went, I had the pleasure of knowledge".

In the nonfiction category, Stephen Greenblatt won for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," a "rumination on the pleasure of knowledge and on the agony of its loss," the judges' citation said.

By The New Yorker October 15, 2008 At the Frankfurt Book Fair, publishers are arguing that books are the best way to weather the economic downturn: "Maybe the crisis is a chance for booksellers to reassert their role in the community as providers of pleasure, of knowledge, for a very, very cheap price".

Ms. Swank has a grown woman's awareness of her body -- she subtly uses the hips she reclaimed from "Boys Don't Cry" -- and her physical smugness falls in line with the aims of "Insomnia," a movie about the pitfalls, and occasional pleasures, of knowledge.

The red soles offer the pleasure of secret knowledge to their wearer, and that of serendipity to their beholder.

Consumers may not get the pleasures of deep knowledge, but they also avoid the angst.

Ms. Huddleston shows us their faces -- the men, women, and children of Timbuktu -- many warmly rejoicing in the pleasures of ancient knowledge, all fully connected to the contemporary world.

They can hold that the non-instrumental value of each of pleasure, knowledge, autonomy, friendship and achievement (or any other good proposed instead) is best explained by its own non-instrumental features.

All parties can also agree that at least part of the instrumental goodness or value of pleasure, knowledge, autonomy, friendship and achievement is best explained by its generation of pleasure.

On the basis of this classification the investigation provides a critical assessment of different kinds of pleasure and knowledge (31b 59d).

What are we to make of this conception of happiness as a mixture of pleasure and knowledge that is based on 'due measurement'?