Sentences with phrase «satisfies human desire»

Because while the body satisfies human desire, it also impedes it.

One understanding of human nature common to the modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon view of nature as a reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).

In garden design, gates and curved paths and alcoves satisfy a human desire for mystery and resolution.

Thanks for commending me on my beliefs towards treating our fellow animals with respect and equal rights and not believing they should be killed to satisfy humans desires.

Not exact matches

Getting humans to the red planet is a quest to satisfy our existential human desire to know if we are the only living beings in the solar system.

But it can hardly be denied that the major part of human energies have been devoted, from earliest times, to this enterprise of using the resources of the world to satisfy our inexhaustible wants, or of making out of the world something that corresponds to our desires.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

Though much of today's science is applied science — the: discovery of new processes and the making of new products to satisfy human wants — it all rests on the desire to find out with certainty what can be known about the world of nature.

We rightly use our technical mastery to augment human happiness by satisfying our individual projects, our desire for a child «of one's own.»

If consumption is by definition the satisfaction of human desires, then satisfying more desires surely contributes to human well being.

We discovered the truth about genes, and so we developed the ability «to create novel organisms expressing domesticated characteristics built to satisfy human needs and the newly emerging desires.»

Long ago Plato suggested that we consider it as divided into three parts — the appetitive, spirited, and rational — that correspond to the three basic kinds of human desires: the desire to satisfy physical appetites, the desire for recognition, and the desire for truth.

Frustration is not new to human nature; but as life becomes more complex and the means of satisfying material desires more numerous and alluring, frustration at failure to find the deeper satisfactions increases proportionately.

Instead, the rationale appears to be that an extended life span would simply satisfy many private desires: first, hardly anyone wants to die; second, as a basic human good, life is worth extending indefinitely; and, third, it would be remiss of science not to respond to that ancient expression of human hope and desire.

But just as in the realm of sex there may be people who evidently can not satisfy themselves, as in the realm of food there are gluttons, so in human relations some people seem to have an insatiable desire to use up the time of their friends until they use up their friends.

At the same time, it is no less sensitive to the desire of human beings not to sicken and die, to be relieved of social strife and injustice, to be forever in the company of their loved ones, to have their deepest yearnings satisfied, and to have an infinitely long life, one that is infinitely and interestingly worth having.

Where the longing for God is satisfied, human sexuality is enriched because spiritual discipline gives form and direction to desire.

This too easily justifies giving priority to satisfying secondary human desires even when doing so conflicts with the critical needs of other creatures.

But even there, as recent liturgical forms show, the human desire sooner or later had to be satisfied; and in some fashion, perhaps by comprecation (that is, praying for the departed by associating them with prayers for ourselves), the realization of this «communion» had to be made available.

One thrust in the dynamics of the will to relate is the desire to satisfy such universal human hungers as the hunger for affection, recognition, caring, esteem, dependency, and sexual satisfaction.

Pollan intertwines history, anecdote, and epiphany in this paradigm - altering view of the mutually beneficial relationships between humans and four plants that have thrived under cultivation and satisfied specific desires: apples and sweetness, tulips and beauty, marijuana and intoxication, potatoes and control.

Instead, we can use the two - decoy system, in which, upon release, the dog is sent onto another decoy, satisfying his desire yet keeping the fight focused on the human.

Distributors took on dozens of new lines that satisfied the pet specialty shopper's desire to recreate human dietary trends for their pets.

Sebastian's artistic take is that the things we throw away reflect the innate human desire for change, what he calls «a constantly repeating pattern to satisfy our needs».