Sentences with phrase «reflection upon the nature»

Reflection upon the nature of religious experience and the art of music reveals the possibility that music is, in fact, the complete mode of bearing the structure of worship.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

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It consists entirely in the rational reflection upon the universal nature of finite things and the implication of this nature for our thought about God.

One of the most interesting of the poems depicting this mood is one called the Song of the Harper, a reflection upon the transitory nature of life and fame, prompted by the contemplation of tombs of ancestors.

Charting a path between the profound and the absurd, their work offers timely reflections upon the relationship between nature and culture.

Smithson's «Rundowns» unlocked conceptions of nature because they moved in the opposite direction — performing an act of visceral despoliation which, upon reflection, turned out to beautiful and harmless.