Sentences with phrase «human nature when»

*** (The foregoing is Brian Martindale's personal belief / interpretation of events based purely on his speculation hinging upon his understanding of human nature when humans, even judges, are faced with difficult decisions of grave importance that said humans (even judges) want to somehow escape from while at the same time saving face (s).

There is a psychological term called «The Commons Dilema» that neatly sums up human nature when competition for scarce resources is on the line; we all are subject to «The Commons Dilema» at various times throughout our lives.

Given actual human nature when it comes to real change, that looks to be something of a long, drawn out process.

SO, there is a true humor and view into human nature when one of the most notorious periods in New York City government, then led by Mayor Koch, is apparently discounted and finds our former Mayor now advocating for some type of improvement in the conduct of the State Legislature.

Comparing your baby to others may feel like human nature when you become a mom.

The very extravagance of them shows that Jesus was well aware what a lot he was demanding of human nature when he substituted «Love your enemies» for «Love your neighbor.»

Not exact matches

It's human nature to want to help people, but what a lot of us don't realize is that when we jump in with advice or a solution, we're shutting the other person down and destroying trust.

When things go wrong, it is human nature to want to find someone to blame.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do we humans, so when we're driven by a desire to close that breach.

The nature of the human being is that when you turn the page, you automatically glance at the right - facing page first.

When you do that, you know people are putting what they've learned into practice — and that's valuable because we all know that human nature is such that, if you don't practice what you learn, within 90 days you'll revert back to what you used to do.

When naming something, it is human nature to want to describe what you are naming.

It's human nature to want to defend your position when it's being challenged.

25:54 — Andy talks about human nature regarding investments: people want to sell when the market drops and buy when it goes up.

Commenting on the 2015 Human Spaces report when it was released, organisational psychology professor Sir Cary Cooper said: «The benefit of design inspired by nature, known as biophilic design, is accumulating evidence at a rapid pace.

Remember human nature dictates that when given the choice of spending money today or spending it next Tuesday, we will choose next Tuesday.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

Part of human nature is we learn more when we use all of our senses.

When the catena of kaleidoscopic identities is open - ended, the meaningfulness of universal human nature and thus of everything predicated on that — including universal human rights — becomes vanishingly small.

When it comes to human nature, some consider me wildly optimistic while others revile me as morbidly pessimistic.

I can not and will not deny that the Bible has great insight into human nature, especially when put in the proper historical and cultural contexts.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

It is far more challenging when trying to replicate processes of nature, because nature is wildy more complex than any human engineering, but as we get smarter and learn more we come closer adn closer to being able to simulate natural conditions and create the expected results.

When progress is achieved, it is through prudent recognition of the limitations of human nature.

But I believe human nature is transformed when we use nice things (or even the Target and Wal - Mart knockoff versions) to become the people we were created to be.

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

And I am not bothered by all of the negitive comments simply because it seems to be human nature to attack something when it makes one feel uncomfortable.

Here's the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at....

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities About Human Nature By Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown Templeton, 168 Pages, $ 17.95 There was a time when people worried whether God existed.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.

Sorry, Vic, but it's part of human nature to see it as a validation of our choices when others make the same choices.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

And yet we must not be afraid of the «dualist» tag, rightly understood, when speaking about human nature.

In my opinion, however, many, many Christians are unbelievably naive when it comes to human nature and the kinds of power dynamics exposed in this conversation.

However, when it comes to Man, the principle of intelligibility that integrates, actualises, orientates and is the driving force of human nature as a going concern in the universe has to be of a different order from matter.

Thus, when we consider whether or not human beings are naturally religious, we need to reject the empiricist notion that we can read human nature off the surface of human behavior.

When we talk about the actions of Jesus we need to be careful because He has two natures — He is fully divine and fully human — even though He is only one, divine Person — God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity.

I am a weird mixture of pessimist and optimist when it comes to human nature.

When we say that a social activity, arrangement, or pattern is in accord with or contrary to human nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain of nature.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

When we are made to feel guilty for something as integral to human nature as s @x then the squelching of those urges is harmful to individuals and couples alike.

When talking about the identity of Jesus as God (before sin and the Cross) it is important to have a much bigger emphasis on the fact of the true human nature of Christ.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

I have often thought, particularly when working in the diocesan marriage tribunal, that our acknowledgement of the fact of Original Sin gives us such a head start when it comes to understanding human nature, and why people act the way they do.

So when we come to the reason for the Incarnation we see it as fundamentally to fulfil human nature irrespective of sin.

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

When we enter the tomb of suffering, we have about as much control over the logistics as when we hit the car brakes on black - ice — and if there's anything human nature craves, it's contWhen we enter the tomb of suffering, we have about as much control over the logistics as when we hit the car brakes on black - ice — and if there's anything human nature craves, it's contwhen we hit the car brakes on black - ice — and if there's anything human nature craves, it's control.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.