Sentence examples for reason desires from inspiring English sources

(Jacobi, 1812 25: vol. 3, 372 94) Fichte's next obvious step was to remove the ground of the illusion by declaring the ideal constructs of reason to be themselves the objects of the transcendent knowledge that reason desires — in effect, of identifying God with the logical order of things.

For this reason, desire lines infuriate some landscape architects and enrapture others.

Given that reasons (desires, intentions) are not logically distinct from the actions they rationalize, reasons could not cause actions.

Southerners, one article reasoned, desired only "that self-government which Englishmen practice themselves and usually commend in others".

Germany was split in two, but not in the way or for the reasons desired by Morgenthau.

Those who left the city cited various reasons: desire for a little green space, new housing, better schools, freedom from crime.

Talking to Deutsch can feel like a case study of reason following desire; the desire is to be a creature of pure reason.

"Wishes must be the work of reason, but desires are nearly always blind powers which are born from temperament.

Someone who holds that there is sufficient reason to desire it, given by the advantages of having that desire, does not have an evaluative disagreement (about desirability) with someone who denies there to be reason to desire such garden-variety mud.

While this seems like a reason to desire the mud, it obviously doesn't make the mud any more desirable.

Secondly, Britain no longer has any reason or desire to retain permanent sovereignty over the island.