Sentences with phrase «angels of our nature»

«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I'd read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long - time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»

«If you do get stuck in an uncomfortably hot environment, taking a few slow, deep diaphragmatic breaths with a long exhale is always going to be the quickest way to engage the «tending - and - befriending» mechanisms of your parasympathetic vagus system [aka the better angels of your nature],» he writes.

In the TIME magazine article, Bill Gates cites Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature as the one book that has most influenced his philanthropy.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

«If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this — the most inspiring book I've ever read,» Gates tweeted on Monday, attaching an image of Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's 2011 book «The Better Angels of Our Nature.»

And, you know, there's another amazing thinker, Steven Pinker, from Harvard, who wrote a book called «The Better Angels of Our Nature.»

In «The Better Angels of Our Nature,» Pinker categorized «five inner demons» as psychological systems that can be triggered to release aggression, along with «four better angels» as motives that can bring humans toward cooperation and altruism.

Business Insider spoke with Pinker back in 2015, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg included «Better Angels of Our Nature» in his book club.

It was some such vision of our country that Lincoln — a true «outsider» — evoked with his «mystic chords of memory,» which, «stretching... all over this broad land, will swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.»

Yes, I suppose if Lincoln was right and we have the better angels of our nature we can also have worse ones.

«In the words of Abraham Lincoln,» the letter continued, «we would appeal to the better angels of our nature and ask you to instead honor the great American tradition of freedom of religion for all and of showing respect for all religions.»

Something Iâ $ ™ ve learned about myself, and human nature in general, is that the better angels of our nature have corresponding demons.

Then there have been leaders who genuinely inspire the better angels of our nature...

Politics aside (lol), don't let the new boss play to the more slovenly angels of your nature; we need to keep dressing like Barack in our new Donald world.

The statement read: «It is true that a university is a place that encourages political discourse, but a civil discourse that, as Lincoln said, speaks to «the better angels of our nature.»

The better angels of our nature: Why violence has declined.

Mario wanted to appeal to the better angels of our nature; Andrew would spear all the bad angels and step over the bodies on the way to higher office.

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker talked about the thesis of his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 17.

They can, and they do — and they have data, compellingly compiled in a massive 832 - page tome by Harvard University social scientist Steven Pinker entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking, 2011).

The audience in Huffington's living room was a self - made yet largely liberal - minded crowd, so it was not surprising that they might embrace a vision that unites, as Huffington put it, «the instinct of competitiveness that we all have — the instinct to win — with the better angels of our nature, the instinct to make this a better world.»

In the struggle for existence how do we herald the better angels of our nature?

Her affection of Mark helps us see the better angels of his nature.

This is one of the few movies in history to appeal almost exclusively to what Abraham Lincoln called, «the better angels of our nature»: creativity, community, discovery and the capacity for wonder.

Both embraced and tested by his salt - of - the - earth father (Jason Clarke) and doted on by his loving mother (Brit Marling), young Abe is shown to learn the values that would come to define his character, at least in the American historical memory: reason, self - control, morality, empathy — those titular «better angels of our nature» that he would index in his first inaugural address.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.»

And it's easy for me to recall my disappointments and mistakes — and times when, to paraphrase Lincoln, the better angels of my nature were not in full sway.

I think Steven Pinker's work on this topic covers it best, especially his excellent Better Angels of our Nature.

Appealing to the better angels of their nature will get you no more than a tiny, very dedicated group of people taking action.

Should anyone want to read a credible book about violence, I recommend Steven Pinker's «The Better Angels of Our Nature».

Don't appeal to the better angels of our nature.

- Arabella Magazine «Occasionally we encounter someone who appeals to the better angels of our nature and reminds us of values we once held dear.

Pinker's recent book, «The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,» has been subjected to considerable criticism.

«Condonation» is one of the few family law doctrines that appeals to the better angels of our nature.

See Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of our Nature, Why Violence has Declined (2011), page 284.

Or could the industry listen to the better angels of their nature and say, we just don't want to do it, on a voluntary basis?»

Not exact matches

Generally, founders agree to provide angels with reporting rights proportionate to the nature of their investment, provided that satisfying the obligations do not materially detract from the pursuit of the startup's objectives.

The timing and nature of angel investments grant the potential for a large payoff but at the cost of increased risk.

Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «Spirits of the Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

When the nature of Christ and his gospel was challenged in the church of Galatia in ways less radical than it is by the Church of Latter - day Saints, St. Paul wrote, «But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.»

There are Angels whose provenance in the court of God — the entire creation — is a divinely mandated commitment to keep nature's elements in balance.

Revelation begins with a brief statement about the nature of the book: it is a revelation given by God to Christ and indicated by an angel to God's servant John; and it concerns what is to take place in the near future (1:1 - 3).

His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave humans, angels, and even animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will and desire of God, and when we do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences, and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives, and bringing destruction in its wake.

Angels, who are created as the images of the One God, also aeviternity, had a free choice in determining the nature of their being.

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Such action would have to be thought of as analogous to that of the angels, who so dispose of themselves in one act, that from the centre of their nature and freedom they are fixed and confirmed in good, or hardened in the evil they have chosen.

It is very interesting that when St. Thomas Aquinas asks if God could have united the nature of an angel to himself, although in the end and on — I think — pretty weak grounds he rejects this argument, he speculates: «There are some who say an angelic nature could not have been assumed because angels not being generated or corrupted are from the moment of their creation perfect in their personality,» (ST III, q. 4, a. 2).

The nature of his soul is spiritual without the limits of matter, and closer to the angels than to inferior animals.

The following verse from the Qur» an is good evidence of the comprehensive nature of the Islamic rules of conduct, «It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the Prophets; and giveth his wealth, in spite of his love for it, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor - due.

In the latter system of thought, nature separates levels of reality according to a hierarchical arrangement — God, angels, man, animals, plants and inanimate matter.