The Worldly Philosophers

Our pleasures are really ancient.

It's one of life's greatest pleasures.

Great men are fond of sensual pleasures.

Food is one of life's greatest pleasures.

Eating is one of life's great pleasures.

Sex is one of life's greatest pleasures.

Food is one of the great pleasures in life.

Crossing the Gods World Religions and Worldly Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2003).

People living in town don't know the pleasures of country life.

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

The late Robert Heilbronner one of Schumpeter s most renowned students viewed economics as worldly philosophy.

But hatred may be accompanied by the self pleasures of an heroic mission.

But we cannot rely on them when so many worldly people see nothing wrong with revolving doors.

One of the most seductive of these pleasures and thus one of the most dangerous is television.

In other words, maybe the pleasures of the mind allow us to increase our happiness with mind wandering.

By admitting conflict of interest,' scientists engaged in such research show that they cannot disengage themselves from the worldly agendas of their patrons.

By that fact alone, he added a spiritual dimension to an age which is dominated by worldly concerns, such as wealth and show business.

There are other potentially harmful pleasures in the environment that are less known, but not less destructive than those that are.

The Countess Lydia Ivanovna knew very well that it was one of his greatest pleasures, though he would never confess it.

All through that difficult time Karenin noticed that all his worldly acquaintances, especially the women, displayed a particularly lively interest in him and his wife.

As a result, Jews were highly oriented toward education, and willing to defer current pleasures and income to obtain more of it.

One can see that he has been educated only to have the right to despise education, as they despise everything except animal pleasures.'

'But don't all of you like those animal pleasures?' she remarked, and he again noticed on her face that dismal look which evaded his.

She would have concealed it but her chief feeling would have been joy that I am punished for the pleasures she has envied me.

God likes to turn to you, but those who are lost in the pleasures of the flesh wish to turn you astray, far away.

For the reformers, normality meant the progressive development of Muslim societies, and they tied this to the interaction of Islamic teaching with relevant, worldly ideas of the time.

Already he fancied himself a deceived husband, necessary to his wife and her lover only to provide them with the comforts of life and with pleasures...

One view is that Americans are perceived (and like to see themselves) as Calvinist workaholics, whereas Europeans like to think that they know how to enjoy life's pleasures.

One view is that Americans are perceived (and like to see themselves) as Calvinist workaholics, whereas Europeans like to think that they know how to enjoy life's pleasures.

Mill thought that there is a big minority of people who tend to seek higher pleasures and that to be active in democratic politics is one of such pleasure.

Allowing them to frame these problems in religious terms legitimizes the perspective that they are attempting to impose, particularly in their own societies.It also allows them to camouflage their very worldly thirst for power.

There is a tradition of the central banker as a worldly philosopher, who stands up for long term sensible policy, and this tradition makes it politically easier for central bankers to do the right thing.

But we cannot rely on them when so many worldly people see nothing wrong with revolving doors. They claim to manage conflicts of interest but we see that they may manage them for their own interests.

In reality, what makes scientific knowledge so credible is that it is produced by an open , imaginative , self critical , disinterested , communal process . It is these institutional characteristics of scientific research that win our worldly wise trust.

'I don't take his part, and it is a matter of complete indifference to me, but I should say that as you did not like these pleasures you might have declined to go.

In his review, Alex Henderson of AllMusic wrote, The CD isn't without its pleasures...but on the whole, Me Amarás is too glossy, too calculated, and much too contrived for its own good.

And we learn, of course, many, many pleasures, but many of them are base. And one of them, of course, is biophilia that we have a response to the natural world that's very profound.

Neil Pasricha's blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life's simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets to leading a life that's truly awesome.

Say what you like, it is one of the pleasures of life!' said Oblonsky. 'Well then, my good fellow, bring us two or that will be too little... three dozen oysters, and vegetable soup...'

Such sayings as The world s peoples are all brothers and Isn t one of life s greatest pleasures to have friends visiting from afar? will be beamed to billions worldwide, expressing the best that Chinese culture has to offer.

The second one was she was not only far from worldly, but evidently felt a repulsion from the world, yet she knew the world and had all the ways of a woman of good Society, without which a life companion would be unthinkable for him.

My childhood was completely taken away from me. There was no Christmas, no birthdays. It was not a normal childhood, no normal pleasures of childhood. Those were exchanged for hard work, struggle and pain, and eventual material and professional success.

The first life is the pleasant life and it's simply, as best we can find it, it's having as many of the pleasures as you can, as much positive emotion as you can, and learning the skills savoring, mindfulness that amplify them, that stretch them over time and space.

The pleasures of a bachelor's life, enjoyed by him on his previous travels abroad, were not to be thought of now, for one attempt of that kind had produced in Anna an unexpected fit of depression quite disproportionate to the offence of a late supper with some acquaintances.