Sentences with phrase «like human nature»

But some things do not change — like human nature.

That feels like human nature to me, for several reasons.

Now it looks like human nature isn't so universal after all

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

There is no question that we must justify anew the concept of universals, like human nature, if we are to maintain the harmony of faith and reason.

And they're justified in doing so with opinions about things that don't change much, like human nature.

Not exact matches

Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

Driving this communication failure, says Mackenzie, is simple human nature: «We like to agree and to be agreed with, and we like to be liked.»

A lot of human nature will drive us to do the small things that make us look busy and feel like we've somehow contributing to the company.

If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili... We're designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language.

Regardless of such sage advice being repeated over and over again, generation after generation, there is something in human nature that makes people want to feel like they have somehow found a silver bullet.

It's human nature to feel like we belong and are connected.

But I do understand that human nature is deceitful, and likes to gloat over material / outward things.

While it's human nature for us to stay in groups of like - minded folks, it's always important to strive beyond our instincts for comfort and security.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

And like you mentioned before, it is indeed human nature to seek validation from others.

it seems that many of us want to create a God in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributes.

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.

Clearly, selective breeding can cause dramatic changes in a creature like a dog, so what does it matter whether it's humans doing the selecting of traits, or nature preferring certain traits based on suitability to survive?

But the Virgin Birth, like the Cross itself, confounds what we think we know; it confounds our belief that power, whether human power or the brute force of nature, prevails in the world.

Human society is the natural outgrowth and expression of human nature which, like all created natures, is set within the Unity Law of Control and Direction, which is his new name for and conception of the NaturalHuman society is the natural outgrowth and expression of human nature which, like all created natures, is set within the Unity Law of Control and Direction, which is his new name for and conception of the Naturalhuman nature which, like all created natures, is set within the Unity Law of Control and Direction, which is his new name for and conception of the Natural Law.

And attempts to restore religious freedom to its proper philosophical place, as something like the sine qua non of freedom itself, presuppose just the view of human nature and reason that our post-Christian liberalism rejects from the outset.

The bonds of trust that bind communities together in shared faith, hope and charity will be corroded from within as human nature itself withers like branches detached from the Vine.

We have learned how physical damage to the brain impairs the functioning of various parts of the body to which the nervous system connects it, and severe brain damage of a congenital nature can prevent the development of anything like a genuinely human personality altogether.

Wieman believed that the consequent nature of God had been «added on like dome and spire» — lacking both empirical support and practical value in the search for the sources of human good.

consciousness is present in all matter, just like gravity it is inherent and innate to everything produced after the big bang, only its level of existence varies with evolution, highest is that of living things, at the top is us humans because of the biological nature of our existence we evolve fastest and our brains has attained the highest level of complexity

I was using the news headlines (and other similar resources, such as charity reports and the like) to make the valid observation that human evil is universal in its effect and nature.

Regarding the first: I do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature human - like feelings, actions, etc. 3 But I do wish to argue that he is innocent of trying to move from (a human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to human beings and characteristically human activities.

You may not like it but it is reality and seemingly human nature to make these mistakes.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

But, you can't have it both ways, attributing all things bad to «darkness» or «human nature» but crediting some hokey sky - fairy with the «good,» like heroic acts floowing a tragedy.

Grace alone seems to have the power to free us from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully human in the sense of being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior is easily achieved or sustained.

Its target, like his own, is a materialistic view of nature and of human nature.

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

It is something like an «understanding of existence,» except that it has implications for the nature of the holy reality and the world in themselves, not simply human existence.

If philosophers are persuaded that they must give an account of human nature, and, ultimately, responsible human action, in terms of Whiteheadian actual entities, societies, and the like, I am sure they will produce some ingenious constructions.

This is not an ultimate community whose solidarity is an expression of an ahistorical human nature or derived from some nonhuman objective reality, but the kind of democratic community endorsed by thinkers like Dewey.

Because a phrase like «totalitarian evangelicalism» has a frightening ring to it, I will distinguish it from those «goods» and «partial goods» — which have some justification in the facts of life and human nature — by explaining what I do not mean by it.

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.

«Instead of fitting into a natural world as best they could — like every creature before — the human species consciously took control away from Mother Nature and into its own hands through a process we now refer to as the Agricultural revolution.»

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

Something like this, I believe, sums up the Christian view of human nature.

It is a merit of modern existentialist thinkers, including nontheists like Martin Heidegger and Jean - Paul Sartre, that they understand and insist upon this truth about human nature.

The principles of human action, like the processes of nature, fall within a universal order established by the Creator, to be recognized at any level by those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

But, below the surface, they are — like all great sci - fi — sharp social allegories and metaphors for human nature and real anxieties.

Anaximander stated that nature is ruled by «laws», just like human societies.

Like her sister Oriental Orthodox Churches, including the Coptic and Syriac churches, the Armenian Church holds instead that Christ has one combined human - divine nature, in which the human and divine nonetheless remain distinct, a position known as miaphysitism.