Sentences with phrase «measure of all things»

This means keeping track of what's going on and setting corrective measures of things that get out of place.

It's not that we shouldn't recognize and honor hard work and achievement, but an A grade is not always an accurate measure of these things.

Both questions lead in the same direction, toward the possibility of a provisional and qualified answer: if the character of happening only once is held to belong to the truth and measure of all things in their very reality, then there is indeed an essence which more than any other satisfies this truth - criterion, and this is the pure essence of time: time taken in itself, or pure movement — movement irrespective of any possible differentiation into the different kinds of movement.

But lots of bands still need promotion and investment, so there are models emerging for how to get those things without relying on physical record sales as the sole measure of all things musical.»

Man and man alone is the proper measure of all things.

There Ivan rejects this universe since it does not fit the contours of his «Euclidean» reason, which Ivan takes to be the final measure of things.

«Traditionally you would take explicit measures of things like how long is this sound, what frequency is that sound?»

And by emphasizing that children are their own measure of things, teachers shirk their responsibility as subject - matter experts.

In poetry, if you read the NY Times, which some people believe is the true measure of all things, you know that they believe poetry should be accessible.

Technically an atheist, Ayn Rand knew deeply, like the centurion in Matthew 8, that we are all under authority, and that man is not the measure of all things.

Where God had been the measure of all things, man now occupied that central role.

The measure of things is whether God is really there.

The same could be said of the Middle Ages, with one correction: The person is the measure of all things, if it is understood that the measure was given by God.

The humanism of the modern age takes that the human being is the measure of all things.

These ideals were inextricably bound up in his mind with a heightening and refining of the emotions, inextricably bound up with a sense of life governed more than anything by a sense of the measure of things.

Perhaps one may often react in this way, making commonplace man who forgets himself over material things the measure of all things, even when he investigates the universe — but will such an escape always be successful?

We are already familiar with some of its essentials as the literal signification of Protagoras» dictum: «Man is the measure of all things.»

«Man» is not the measure of all things.

If man is the measure of all things, then it is the task of man to know what those things are.

It also makes the individual the measure of all things.

We prefer to live by Protagoras's dictum that «man is the measure of all things.»

I strongly suspect that we are blinded by Protagoras» bias («Man is the measure of all things») when we project ourselves into the alien Other.

In addition to the SFFS - supported projects, local filmmaker and longtime San Francisco International Film Festival favorite Sam Green (the Oscar - nominated «The Weather Underground,» «The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller,» «Utopia in Four Movements») is premiering «The Measure of All Things,» a new collaboration with yMusic in Sundance's New Frontier program.

We measure grades and graduation rates, but are we measuring all of the things that we value?

The Measure of All Things is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time.

In The Measure of All Things Ken Alder describes a quest that succeeded even as it failed.

Alder's other works include The Measure of All Things: The Seven - Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World, and his most recent book of history, The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession.

Global and domestic Purchasing Managers» Indices (PMIs)-- a measure of things such as new orders, inventory, production, and employment — reversed trend and began to accelerate in the third quarter of 2016.

It would take an optimist or maybe a sexist these days to announce that man in the measure of all things.

Other recent exhibitions include a major solo presentation at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City in 2018; JG at Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Arcadia University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania; Tacita Dean: The Measure of Things, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro; Tacita Dean, De Mar en Mar, Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain; and Tacita Dean: The Studio of Giorgio Morandi, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna.

It is assumed that it is not the human being that is the measure of all things, but that communication takes place on equal footing.

1996 Irving Norman: Social Surrealist, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA The Measure of All Things: Paintings by Irving Norman, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA Irving Norman: Selected Early Drawings, 1941 - 1955, Jan Holloway Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Green was also previously at MASS MoCA with The Measure of All Things in 2014.

A resurgent interest in Norman's work has emerged in the last decades with several solo shows including a 1996 solo exhibition at the De Young, The Measure of All Things, and the traveling exhibition Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism (2007 - 2008).

Man is the measure of all things, to paraphrase Protagoras.

By syncretizing her own proportions with those of the raw materials Vieira creates a metric relationship among the elements of the show, drolly embodying Protagoras» statement that «man is the measure of all things».

Humans treat themselves as the measure of all things, and using visual methods to distinguish, by seeing differences and similarity.

Also making strong impressions were Janine Antoni and Rachel Whiteread, both of whom use the body as the measure of all things.

One weakness of these arguments is that in each, humans are the measure of all things.

«The size of the system alone is no longer the measure of all things.