Sentences with word «felicity»

As Washington put it in his Farewell Address: «Can it be that providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?»

Nicole Sealey navigates heavy ideas with felicity and skill in her hotly anticipated debut collection, Ordinary Beast.

This argument, and the missionary imperative inherent in the argument, is set forth at greater length and, one may be permitted to suggest, with greater felicity in the 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer).

Feuerbach's «felicity principle,» as Harvey calls it, assumes that the point of being religious is to secure one's well - being both here and hereafter.

Any scheme that is taken as a final and complete blueprint for human felicity functions as an idol, for no such plan can possibly encompass the fullness of excellence, and no humanly contrived pattern or program can embody the ultimate meaning of human existence.

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Other people swear by female cats as felicity «purrsonified.»

Make me immortal in the place Wherein felicity and joy, Pleasure and bliss together dwell, And all desire is satisfied.9

They will still be technically in hell, since they will lack the beatific vision, but they will enjoy a kind of natural felicity, like that of infants who die without baptism.

It encourages man to view his physicality with contempt, as a barrier between his soul and its ultimate felicity.

Our sides, charms, or mini-selves, as Emerson suggested much earlier, are the original, natural commodities, the things we seek to appropriate from one another, by consent or otherwise, for our fleeting felicity.

11 He went on to say that «the Christian doctrine of God would be inferior to that of the Greeks, did it not supplement this teaching of the infinite passibility of God with the assertion that the Almighty abides in perfect felicity,» 12 whereupon «the revelation of the cross is the persuasive power which brings all men to God.»

But if this is so, Hartshorne's denial of perishing means future felicity amends any present suffering, no matter how far future.

Although anguish may be the momentary state, by metaphysical necessity God must objectify it in his own infinite felicity.

Economic and geographic felicities alone can not account for the sudden concentration of people in the area at a particular moment.

With Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks as the leads, and Spielberg's unparalleled felicity with composition and movement, The Post has everything Liberal, Elite America could want in a movie about itself.

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But none of our phrase - making efforts had any special felicity.

, and we all, organically, get to eat, frolic and nap on the plateau in societal nirvana prior to slipping seamlessly from this earthly felicity to the orgasmically ecstatic evermore.

Grace Glueck once declared about Fairfield Porter's work: «Neither abstract nor representational, but existing in a light struck zone between, these [are] beautiful, well - mannered, WASP - y records of domestic felicity.»

The more earnest George Washington wondered, «Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

From popular interpretations of Freud (in many respects incautious and one - sided) it has come to be widely believed that sexual impulses are the central factor in human existence, that social restraints on sex are the source of unhappiness and illness, and that uninhibited sexual experience is the basis for human felicity.

This means that all hope of bourgeois tranquillity, the dreams of «millenary» felicity in which we may be tempted to indulge, must be washed out, eliminated from our horizon.

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The «Floyds» of the world will have roughly $ 120,000 a year to spend, and the «Felicities» of the world will have about $ 170,000 a year to spend.

For Hobbes, felicity — the fugitive enjoyment of a desire, including our deepest, most human, and noblest desires — isn't the ultimate concern or purpose of human life.

If Tocqueville called us practical Cartesians, there's a manner in which we're practical Hobbesians about the folly of felicity — and this despite our recognition that, in the land of equal freedom, the pursuit of happiness is the only game in town.

Unenviable philosophy — unlike facility, felicity, and fraternity — is supremely resistant to democratization.

When Dante entitled his 14th century classic Commedia — not «divine» comedy; the divine part was added by later divines — he meant that it was written in the vernacular («lax and humble» rather than lofty and stately language) and that it moved from «misery to felicity» (from hell to paradise).

This book is the definition of felicity, and I will never cease loving the Dashwood sisters.

It really captures the lightness and felicity of the book.