Sentences with phrase «sole object of desire»

In the absence of empirical data to support these claims, Mill simply appeals to his readers to make their own observations; he asserts that in doing so, they will recognize that pleasure or happiness is in fact the sole object of desire (U 49).

The anxious self can make its own self - gratification the sole object of desire, or sensuality becomes a convenient means of escape from the self's agony through the obliteration of feeling, the plunge into nothingness.