Sentence examples for that which we desire from inspiring English sources

First, no person deserves sex; we're not born with the right to be able take from another person's body that which we desire.

In that year he read a paper to the Cambridge Apostles "Is Ethics a Branch of Empirical Psychology" in which he defined goodness as that which we desire to desire.

This argument is wheeled on to discredit a particular naturalistic analysis of "good"—"one of the more plausible, because one of the more complicated of such definitions"—that " good mean[s] … that which we desire to desire".

(Suggested candidates for 'X' might be 'that which causes pleasure' or 'that which we desire to desire'; cf. PE, 15-16).

But in that case, the antecedent of (1.3″)—that the belief that "Things which we desire to desire are good", provides a reason for action is false, so far as Russell's analysis is concerned.

He argues that one's self is neither that in virtue of which we sense nor that in virtue of which we desire, but rather that in virtue of which we reason and think (De facie 944F 945A; cf. Timaeus 90a-d).

All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love.

He said: 'Actually I am not sure I can do it.'" It is true what they say; we desire more that which we believe we cannot have.

Love is the name Plato gave to the desire to seek out that which we sense we lack.

Wouldn't this be the time to take a stand and make a commitment to show up and be a creator of that which you most desire?

Do you go in now, and tell them this". 80 "Your exhortation is right useful," Themistocles answered, "and your news is good; for you have come with your own eyes for witnesses of that which I desired might happen.