Sentences with phrase «from egotism»

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Its first effect is the removal of the stress of acquisitive feeling arising from the soul's preoccupation with itself «55 This element excludes the pursuit of beauty and truth, art and adventure in hungry egotism and so involves the transcendence of the self.

For wars flow from the inner heart of the City of Man, its egotism, pride, ambition, and other sins — that is, distorted acts of all kinds.

As long ago as 1953 in his study of Heroes, Highbrows and the Popular Mind (Bobbs - Merrill), Leo Gurko discerned «signs of a movement away from [brawn and] egotism,» at least in the movies, to a new type of hero who was aware that the problems of life perhaps could not all be solved by a breezy manner, a gun, or a punch in the nose» (pp. 192 - 193).

But feminist theologians point out that such egotism does not stem from an isolated ego.

Since we can't even guarantee that enlightened egotism will save the world from a nuclear doomsday, what will prevent the earth from turning into a gigantic feedlot for 40 or more billion people?

«Reflexion» is not egotism but the withdrawal from accepting the other person in his particularity in favour of letting him exist only as one's own experience, only as a part of oneself.

That is, there is a fundamental falseness to the egotism that develops from one's physical instincts for survival, since the ontological reality is that one's own survival is bound up with the survival of all else.

He triumphs — he rescues himself from the problems he faces — by developing virtues equal and opposite to the anger, insecurity and pathetic yet ruthless egotism that characterize his enemies.

One might say that we shall commit the sin of racial egotism, even if we are delivered from the sin of individual egotism — although for my own part, I would think that the two are very closely related if they are not, indeed, different expressions of the same sinful pride on man's part.

Whatever my queasiness about laughing at a head case, I couldn't help myself from thrilling to Franco's timing, his relish, his swan dive into an egotism that has no bottom.

The Queen Of Versailles gleans some big, guilty laughs out of its subjects» rampant egotism and surreal disconnect from everyday reality, but it's ultimately less interested in laughing at the Siegels» misfortune than in attempting to understand them.

Even Dwight seems cognizant of appearing like a first - timer, like a failed attempt to Rambo - ize a wound, or the rejection of the wisdom from a local war vet (Devin Ratray), which seems to have less to do with egotism and more to do with feeling even more out of his element.

is most fascinatingly solipsistic, for Bardem's character, a frustrated artist who becomes a kind of poet prophet, is a heinous figure born from his creator's demurring egotism.

Their mesmerizing grids, in particular from the 1970s, emphasize the concern to eliminate egotism, in contradistinction to many artists of the time who rather focused on the individual.

I'd like to say no, but then again, it beats the alternatives: irrational egotism void of any beneficial results, or mandatory pro bono where every lawyer, from Biglaw to solo practice, is forced to handle a case for a legitimately needy litigant.

Of course, it could be that we here in Canada or, indeed, here in Toronto, are somehow perverse — or just different from our American sibs, lacking, perhaps, that «implicit egotism» that would have, well, made me into a farmer.

Self - esteem, narcissism, and aggression: Does violence result from low self - esteem or from threatened egotism?