This argument is based upon the contention that the person who saves his money, and invests it in the instruments of production undergoes a sacrifice in deferring to the future satisfactions that he might enjoy to-day.
While the incomes of both are reduced in the same proportion, their satisfactions are not diminished to the same degree.
But the most general method of conferring advantage upon the secondary satisfactions of the future as compared with those of the present, is to increase the quantity.
He will not decide in favour of the future unless the satisfactions then obtainable are to be greater in quantity.
Economic prosperity and good wages are not alone sufficient to keep people on farms and in villages if their income will not purchase the satisfactions they desire.
And He believed that religion was essentially a system of behavior by which the individual need not be swallowed up in the group, but by which the individual must find ultimate satisfactions in spiritualizing the group.
Together they make possible so many satisfactions heretofore only available to the cities, as to quite revolutionize the whole aspect of rural life.
Yearning for full satisfactions while balked of these perpetually, we still prosecute our search for them, our faith in their attainment remaining unshaken under every disappointment.
Am I to quit my present satisfactions for your promised joys.
Every prospect the mother gains is soon commanded by her children: our comforts and satisfactions life-long having the voice and countenance of woman.
Persons do not engage in buying and selling for the mere pleasure of it, but always for the sake of some satisfactions derivable to both parties from the issue of it.
Some sales are consummated at once, the things exchanged and the ownership in them are mutually passed over then and there, the reciprocal satisfactions are entered upon immediately, and there is at once an economical end.
Our present analysis can go no further, for the reason, that we have now reached in Satisfactions the end, for the sake of which all the previous processes have been gone through with.
It is plain to reason and to all experience, that mutual Satisfactions are the ultimate thing in exchanges.
Evidently not the least of her satisfactions was the fact that those lords and ladies had lived there before her.
No doubt she has as lively a pride, and gets as many satisfactions between these narrow walls, as did the lords and ladies of 1700.
The gross satisfactions don’t count in the long run.
Her hand had gone out to her papers, and was stirring them to crepitations that seemed to express the restless satisfactions of her life.
This vitiated appetite craves for unlawful and forbidden satisfactions and pleasures, such as are not in keeping with the plans of the Creator.
Overwrought attachment to satisfactions of the palate, betrayed by constant thinking of viands and pleasures of the table, and by avidity in taking nourishment, betokens a dangerous, if not a positively sinful, degree of sensuality.
They crowd the collateral satisfactions out of house and home, he thinks, and pragmatism has to go into bankruptcy if she recognizes them at all.
But he makes a very pretty show of convicting me of self-stultification in according to our purely theoretic satisfactions any place in the humanistic scheme.
Discriminations notoriously have to be made; and the upshot is that only rational candidates and intellectual satisfactionsstand the test.
Chesterfield had these folk in mind when he spoke with an intolerable, if incisive, cynicism of those who know the art of combining the useful appearances of virtue with the solid satisfactions of vice.
She had created much trouble by her petty false accusations, and her lying stood often in the way of her own satisfactions and advantages.
His continuous lying proves to be directly inimical to his own interests and, indeed, his own satisfactions are thwarted by the curious unreliability of his word.
This purpose shows itself to be the satisfaction of sexual wishes; the symptoms serve as a sexual satisfaction for the patient, they are a substitute for such satisfactions as they miss in reality.
He that does not feel the force of agreeable views and situations in his own mind, will hardly arrive at the satisfactionsthey bring from the reflections of others.
Such I am sure was my condition all this evening; and if you, my deity, cannot have so much mercy as to make me by your influence capable of tasting the satisfactions of life, my being is ended, which consisted only in your favour.
These live in that mutual confidence of each other, which renders the satisfactions of marriage even greater than those of friendship, and makes wife and husband the dearest appellations of human life.
The better she understood how difficult was every way of advancement, the more fiercely resolute was she to conquer satisfactions which seemed beyond the sphere of her destiny.
Forecasts had not hitherto troubled her; the present was so rich in satisfactions that she could follow the bent of her nature and live with no anxiety concerning the unknown.
The merely egoisticsatisfactions of fame are easily nullified by toothache, and that has made my chief consciousness for the last week.
Alicia knew only of this uncertainty; other satisfactions were reserved for the nurses and Mrs. Barberry.
I like the smell of warm kitchens and the talk of bus-drivers, and bread and herrings for my tea--all the low satisfactions appeal to me.
She was a prey to further hesitations regarding the expediency of mentioning the interview to Laura, and as private and confidential it ministered for two days to her satisfactions of superior officer.
He was accustomed to find in her fields of delicately blooming enthusiasms, and running watercourses where his satisfactions were ever reflected.
The physical satisfactions are limited and fallacious, the intellectual and moralsatisfactions are unlimited.
If anything can correct the evils of devotion to money, it seems to me that it is the production of intellectual men and women, who will find other satisfactions in life than those of the senses.
We should have had such delight in her unaffected pleasure in it, and it would have been one of those satisfactions somewhat adequate to our sense of fitness that are so seldom experienced.
If wealth is a good, it might seem that property must be judged by the same standard, since it represents security in the satisfactionswhich wealth affords.
Similarly we may speak of satisfactions being added to one another and the total sum increased; or of dissatisfaction coming in as offsets and reducing the amount of satisfaction.
Or, to say that satisfactions are about equal means that we are now at a loss to choose between them.
Starting with organic needs, this developing life process may find satisfactions in the physical world in the increasing power and mastery over nature gained by the explorer or the hunter, the discoverer, the craftsman, or the artist.
Pleasures and pains, satisfactions and miseries, are recurrent familiar experiences.
Are we to measure wealth by Satisfactions realized, or by Values created?
If they desire to procure themselves satisfactions they must make an effort.
Is it not quite natural that in every case wants should be judged of by those who experience them, satisfactions by those who seek them, efforts by those who exchange them?
This effect not only flows from the principle of perfectibility, but is confirmed by /fact/, since on all sides the range of satisfactions is extended.
How is a just proportion of the permanent advances, the general costs, and what the Economists term fixed capital, to be spread over the whole series of satisfactions which they are destined to realize?
In reality, every man comes into the world charged with the responsibility of providing for his satisfactions by his efforts.
The same observation applies to satisfactions which have nothing material belonging to them.
Here a serious question presented itself to the minds of Christians, which was now to be wrought out:--Were these punishments merely signs of contrition, or in any sense satisfactions for sin?
He often said that one of the greatest satisfactions in life was to be able to do something really well, better than most people could do it, and he was happy in the thought that music would give that satisfaction to his daughter.
One of my husband's last satisfactionsin life was a letter for Mr. Burlingame, about the work lately done for Messrs.
Many innocent pleasures and legitimate satisfactions were erroneously thought to be sinful.
For the group to feel a great spiritual solidarity, and for its members to be bound together by mutual confidence and the satisfactions of a rewarding comradeship, is the foundation of great enterprise.
The greater part of man's satisfactions comes of activity and only a very small remnant comes of passive enjoyment.
Were all officers to make a conscious striving in this direction, the credit of the corps as a whole, and the satisfactions of each of its members in his service, would be tremendously increased.
Referring once again to the list of satisfactions due the man, it will be noted that they differ little, if at all, from the demands of his spirit before he has put on the uniform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satisfactions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
