All our search, all our activity, all this demand, the searching for truth and all that nonsense, is based on pleasure. Your gods are based on pleasure, your virtue is based on pleasure, your morality is based on pleasure. So what is pleasure, which every human being demands? There was an incident yesterday which was a great delight, it filled your mind and heart. When you looked at the clouds, the water or the sailing ships, it was a great delight. Thought comes in and says, ‘I would like that to be repeated. It was so pleasurable, I must have it again.’ Take the pleasure of sex: thought builds the image, all the stimuli of thought, and the fulfilment of it tomorrow. So thought gives continuity to pleasure and sustains fear. You don’t finish with the incident of yesterday, whether it is pleasurable or painful; it is finished but thought goes on living with it. So thought is responsible for pleasure and pain, which is the sustaining of pleasure and continuance of fear.