Sentences with phrase «magnanimous men»

Our magnanimous men, as Aristotle called them, can inspire us to envy just as easily to emulation — as Nietzsche once wrote: «If there were Gods how I could not bear to number myself among them.

Aristotle's so - called «magnanimous man», in the Nichomachean Ethics seems to me a ghastly model for God, with that man's «remarkable condescension» but with his incapacity genuinely to share.

Now, what would a magnanimous man do?

A less magnanimous man than I might feel affronted.

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Therefore they do not want to hear that God is magnanimous in the dispensing of His love, or that His dealings with men are not limited to one blind alley which comes to a sudden halt at one point in history.

Abraham Lincoln's greatness of character came out when catastrophe faced him, when he was steady in a shaken time, magnanimous in a vindictive time, when the worse the situation became the more of a man he proved himself to be.

the man is well - respected by peers and competitors alike for being magnanimous and forward - thinking — dare i say, progressive.

It was never summed - up better than by Winston Churchill on the death of Neville Chamberlain when, in one of the most magnanimous tributes in political history, Churchill said: «The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Rabbi Chaim calls Saul magnanimous, a person of character and fortitude, but to Simon he was a decorous, timid man who skirted conflict and trouble — a man who seemed to do so little out of passion that it was a wonder he had ever married Gertie, for no one would have viewed Simon's mother, with her ambition and pendulum moods, as a pragmatic choice.