Sentences with phrase «human happiness andtrue»

He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the preservation of Tibet's Buddhist culture, a culture of peace and non-violence.

These digital assets could disrupt our psychology and increase human happiness.

That pathway — which is our current one — can only lead to a hellishly hot future, probably with massive structural inequalities (as the powerful control the increasingly limited environmental resources such as water and sources of energy) and not much human happiness.

Other versions of this concept include the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan's championing of Gross National Happiness as an alternative measure of progress, and the New Economics Foundation's Happy Planet Index, which measures both overall human happiness and ecological sustainability.

«Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet.

No - one's expecting you to agree with Orwell about toads, the importance to human happiness of an appreciation of the natural world, or indeed anything else (far from it).

Every day discoveries are made that extend human life, improve human health, increase human wealth, promote human happiness, enrich human lives.

Various Buddhists schools for example, have varying opinions about what human happiness is, and they all disagree in the details, and each belief has to be tested.

Of course, it is a tremendously complex calculation - lumping all the complexity of an economic cost and benefits calculation on top of the complexity of the climate - but to me this information is essential to work out priorities between competing policies, both among climate change policies and between CC and other sources of human happiness.

Dubos» essay conveys the idea that this struggle of self - definition and striving is the path to human happiness.

In this article, Dubos reflects on what brings human happiness.

For example, for the sake of biodiversity and human happiness, conservation is no longer enough; now we must create nature — where we live, work, learn and play.

However its true that owning more and more «stuff» has steeply diminishing returns in terms of human happiness.

Artist Statement «My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.»

«She is as fast and as difficult to catch as human happiness.»

It's the life and soul of human happiness.

And yet, if human happiness is even half as complicated as the stock market, there is little reason to assume that intuition provides a sufficient guide.

As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovable; we add, more vitally, that the God idea is an interference with the interests of human happiness and progress.

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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists.

In Global Education Magazine we stand up for Global Health as a fundamental way to reach human happiness.

«The Lobster» is a satire on the subject of our universal obsession with relationships, and our conviction that couplehood is the supreme expression of human happiness, a civilised institution which distinguishes us from the beasts.»

If I had to summarize all the causes of human happiness in one word, that word would be «social.»

I still believe in true love and simple human happiness.

I simply want human happiness, love and be loved!

I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master - builder of human happiness.

In yogic science, the real - time results of longevity and human happiness and health have been written, tested, and practiced by the Rishis and by the lineages of «yogic scientists» and practitioners throughout the past thousands of years, and then there's modern science.

Better health is considered essential for human happiness and well - being.

«We've known for some time that social relationships are the best predictor of human happiness, and this paper shows that the effect is much more powerful than anyone realized,» says Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a professor of psychology at Harvard University.

'' Love and compassion... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.»

Seeking electives, Yandell signed up for a religious studies course called «God and Human Happiness.»

He then described the humanist tradition as «a loose network of individuals broadly exercised by questions of the spirit, concerned to optimise the sum total of human happiness here on earth; individuals naturally respectful of others, wedded to rationalism and to scientific rigour, revering all life, unafraid to proclaim and to celebrate the joy of existence and the richness of human expression.»

Like Job, he might discover that, while the natural order seems inimical to human happiness, its operations might have their own purposes, not revealing any divine hostility toward human well - being.

Perhaps the most thoroughly post-modern, post-pessimistic act Herzog commits is his decision, at the close of the novel, not to go mad — his decision for human happiness.

Indeed, Mill might have said, these attributes contribute more to human happiness than the lower or sensual pleasures.

That is, Mill could maintain that the pride, liberty, and dignity which distinguish the higher pleasures are not separate from pleasure or happiness, but rather are essential parts of human happiness.

He states: «It could be argued that the Church herself is in part responsible for this in that we have failed, since the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s, to explain attractively and imaginatively the alternative vision of life and love that Jesus has taught and which he promises is the true way to human happiness and eternal life.»

Why is a world formed by Christianity now rejecting Christianity — with its understanding of cosmos, history, and ultimate promise — while embracing impossible dreams of human happiness?

Because Christ has come and is always present there can be no progress in the achieving of human happiness.

People are told that sexual freedom and porno - culture are vehicles of human happiness and fulfillment.

For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»

Human happiness and self - worth are relative.

There is a desire to discover supernatural laws for human happiness, a willingness to cooperate with a purpose higher than the transitory human purpose, a longing to communicate with the Creator and an attempt to grasp some security which transcends physical death.

But let me repeat that the man who denies the existence of God or any spiritual order can only produce a set of ethical standards which he and his friends have decided are the best and most conducive to human happiness.

Our human happiness is found there, at a level much deeper than in a superficial «pleasant feeling.»

Our profession need not now agree on its origin, significance, and value for human happiness when we acknowledge that by itself it does not meet the requirements for a psyc disorder.

«Thus even the civic institutions of men, to be totally focussed, must embody something of this underlying relationship to God as the source of human truth and the dynamism of natural human happiness.»

After the necessities for survival are met, healthy relationships contribute much more to human happiness than does the increase of consumption of goods and services.

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

In the first seminar, devoted to Dostoevsky's «The Grand Inquisitor» (from The Brothers Karamazov), participants will take up the Inquisitor's claim that human freedom was a divine error and that human happiness requires that the burden of freedom be transferred to the few.