Sentences with phrase «forgotten admonition»

It describes a documentary called «Manufactured Landscapes» (click on the image above for a trailer) and a forgotten admonition from Adam Smith, best known for growth economics, about the prospect that this model of advancement would lead to «the endless pursuit of unnecessary things.»

We get so focused on ourselves and our own concerns we forget the admonition of the apostle Paul to «not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others (Phillippians 2:4)»

[Chief Justice Joyal] is forgetting the admonition of Jordan — hard - cap limits which are meant to shock the system out of a «culture of complacency.»

Not exact matches

Rorty chides those who have forgotten Nietzsche's admonition that truth is nothing but «a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms — in short a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people» (VPN 46 - 7).

All parents know that the time will come when the external supports which they have built up around their children will fall away and the particular admonitions which they have given will be forgotten.

I will never forget the pity (couched as compassion) and the shame (couched as encouragement to excel or admonitions to lean on God — not my own strength) that were heaped and heaped and dumped on me before I left.

Let us not forget Niels Bohr's admonition that prediction is very difficult, especially if it concerns the future.