Sentence examples for secure pleasure from inspiring English sources

Acrasia, weakness of will, would occur when someone who knows what is right does what is wrong under the influence of passion or in order to secure pleasure.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Perhaps the lesson is simply that for some of us, eating too much fills a void, offering a way to secure a pleasure you don't know you are missing.

Weakness of agency can see our motivation fail to generate our action (see weakness of will); and the related 'paradox of hedonism' is the plausible claim that some of our hedonically motivated or determined action actually secures less pleasure than we would otherwise have got (e.g., Sidgwick: 48f).

Young men are more concerned about avoiding infections and securing sexual pleasure and less concerned about avoiding potential pregnancies.

Locke concludes from this that we are always motivated to get rid of pain before securing any particular pleasure (E2-5 II.xxi.36: 254).

It would be a pleasure to secure a loan from him.

It helps that the narrative is equally fascinated by the ways in which women secure authority, and even pleasure, within these strictures, and that in the second season its bench of female characters has got even deeper — among them, a seafaring warrior princess, a butch knight, and Tyrion's prostitute girlfriend.

Many Celtic fans might have taken greater pleasure in securing it at the home of a certain other club in Scotland's biggest city, but the absence of Rangers from the top flight has made their task easier for the second season running.

"When a person in love repeatedly seeks contact with another individual for physical intimacy, attention, or merely to be in the same room it is often to secure momentary feelings of intense pleasure and to relieve obsessive thought patterns about the object of her passion," one study concluded.

Old men, wishing to enjoy sexual pleasure or to secure the affections of women, as well as those suffering from senile decay or sexual incapacity, and persons weakened with sexual excesses may also use Vajikaran remedies.