Pleasure follows from desire rather than desire being caused by pleasure

Evidence

Whatever I may happen to desire, I shall feel pleasure in obtaining it; but as a rule the pleasure is due to the desire, not the desire to the pleasure. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2231

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2231
• XREF: connects to: Colonial desire inverts cause and effect, making whiteness the true object of love; Interest as pleasure-pain desire causes all thought and naming — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 482; Desire must be its own lack, not a merely physiological state — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 355 (+9 more)