Sentences with phrase «frightful man»
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It is just the «spiritual» man of today who suffers in a frightful fashion the old temptation of the human spirit, that is to say, that of objectifying the living accomplishment....
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Indeed, Hartshorne's catalogue of ills that afflict those who have lost faith in nature and God as friends is a frightful list: «men are likely to grow bitter, or depressed and fearful, or genially cynical and selfish, or mad with megalomaniac ambition, or slavishly worshipful of power or wealth — or just dull and apathetic and unimaginative, like a number of agnostics I have known.
If we import into our thinking ideas about rewards and punishments, as these are commonly understood, we turn God into «the ruthless moralist» who, as Whitehead once remarked, is one of the false «gods» that men have worshipped to their own frightful hurt.
It's the mission of a nonprofit organization formed by a New York man who describes himself as a stockbroker, journalist, entrepreneur and business consultant — a frightful combination if ever there was one.