Sentence examples for we desire it from inspiring English sources
We desire it, despite its bad press.
We cannot provide democracy if we desire it more than the Afghans.
And I am inclined to agree with Dr. Victor Aziz that such hallucinations may well become more common as we are all constantly bombarded with music, whether we desire it, attend to it, are conscious of it or not.
So, if it is true that we call a thing good only if we desire it, then it will also be true that anything we call good will be joy or what leads to it.
Russell also anticipated the modern theory of emotivism (as introduced by A.J. Ayer in his 1936 Language, Truth and Logic), arguing that "Primarily, we call something 'good' when we desire it, and 'bad' when we have an aversion from it" (1927b, 242), a view that "he had been flirting with since 1913" (see the entry on Russell's Moral Philosophy in this encyclopedia; see too Schilpp 1944, 719f).
As cancer patients, we require it to mark milestones, and we desire it for release.
Moral judgments (at least judgments about goodness) reduce to "statements of a psychological state" since to say something is good is to say that "we" desire to desire it, a statement well within the frontiers of psychology (whether "we" refers to the community at large or the to speaker whoever he or she may be).
To be healthy we must first desire it, we must want it so bad that we are willing to do the work to achieve it.
For if something's goodness were identical with its being such as to elicit desire when perceived, it would be no surprise that we come to desire it when we perceive it.
And if they desire it, we can provide a viewing just the way it would take place in a human ceremony.
