Sentences with phrase «ideas of other mere»

Arrogance is reading the Work of God and denying the truth in it when you have no basis to deny it except the thoughts and ideas of other mere mortal talking clay.

Not exact matches

The idea that society could be based on a mere coagulation of individual interests, that the pursuit of private vice could result in public virtue, was a radically new idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and one that did not sit well with other still powerful traditions.

«Christian thought,» he says, «discovered the kernel of the concept of the person» and in doing so «describes something other and infinitely more than the mere idea of the «individual.»»

These two ideas are closely related and, in my judgment, have an importance for Paul and are intended with a literalism and realism which can not be affirmed of any of the other images, although, as will soon appear, I am by no means dismissing the second and third of them as mere metaphors.

Very few other authors, with the exception perhaps of Schmalhausen and a few of his students, have done anything more than pay the merest lip - service to the idea that selection operates on phenotypes.

is a mere logicker, fastening on a word as the sole expression and exact equivalent of truth, to go on spinning deductions out of the form of the word (which yet having nothing to do with the idea), then he becomes a one - word professor, quarreling, as for truth itself, with all who chance to go out of his word; and, since words are given not to imprison souls but to express them, the variations continually indulged in by others are sure to render him as miserable in his anxieties, as he is meager in his contents, and busy in his quarrels.

Whatever is implied by the mere meanings of Plato's idea of Good, or of value, and «better than,» or of Whitehead's creativity, the ideas of dependence, independence, and still others (coherently combined) is metaphysically necessary and eternally true.

I was so enamored with Laura's creativity (or perhaps a combo of ingenuity and laziness) to come up with this tricky and smart method to make a kick - ass nut milk in mere moments, I decided to check out the cookbook from the library to see what other brilliant ideas this Canadian (and plant - based) food blogger had concocted for her debut cookbook.

A case could be made for Gregory Peck in «To Kill a Mockingbird» or Marlon Brando in «The Godfather,» but they had other pressing obligations — one as a small - town lawyer taking a stand against racism and the other a mob kingpin whose idea of family goes beyond mere blood relatives.

More than mere activity, communication implies recognition, understanding and the possibility of acceptance of each other's ideas.

One of the things that authors (unlike other mere mortals) do is organize their thoughts and ideas.

My own perception is shared by others: from the beginning, Hoyland seems to have willed abstraction beyond its usual limits so that the formal means taken, through colour and brushwork, to arrive at a particular end, embark upon their own celebration and extravagances of colour and varied impasto — through intensity of physical expression and a willingness to aim, nearly always, at the unfolding of a spectacle rather than the mere trapping of a formal idea.

Some of the ideas are mere suggestions and others are based on the information that the Sea Level Research Group (SLRG) has put out on their website.

Others have been bitterly critical of the idea that the work of the judiciary could ever be effectively delegated to mere civil servants.

In addition to subject matter that is specifically excluded in the Patent Act (mere scientific principles and abstract theorems), courts have interpreted the statutory definition of «invention» to exclude computer programs, artistic works, methods of medical treatment, mere ideas and other inventions that lack «a practical application».