Sentences with phrase «pleasure over pain»

It will seem clearly realistic to judge that my actions, as well as everyone else's, are and must be guided by calculations of self - interest, looking toward some maximum excess of pleasure over pain for some segment of an expected lifetime.

Life is generally valued over death (not always), health is generally valued over disease, pleasure over pain, ect.

Not exact matches

I choose happy hour over my knee - strengthening exercises because the pleasure of beer is immediate, while the pain I'll prevent with my gym routine isn't.

It's a society in which nearly all emotion, pleasure and pain, have been eradicated through injections, where even such things as color and music are unknown to the citizens, who've never ventured over «The Edge» to see what's on the other side.

I am not articulate enough to try convince people of the true dangers of CC if I am not allowed to hit you over the head with a mental stick because you see we are hominids, the same ones that flee from pain and seek pleasure.