Sentences with phrase «n't grasp reality»

It's those who can't grasp reality, and perform these heinous acts of violence that cause the government and media to point fingers at the gaming industry.

Not exact matches

There's a certain freedom in grasping this somewhat allusive reality: nobody can take your mind prisoner if you don't allow it.

Not all politicians and leaders have grasped the new reality at Boeing, said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at the Teal Group.

Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford acceNot that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford accenot that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.

The fact that someone can profess to believe in something as insane as an invisible magic man in the sky in the first place tells me their grasp on reality is tenuous to begin with, and probably shouldn't be the sort of person to be trusted with the means to wipe out our species.

Binx recognizes a kinship here that escapes his understanding of himself as dislocated in time and place in relation to the Wandering Jew, who is not a literary shibboleth but a reality eluding his grasp.

You don't seem to be able to grasp this reality.

Barr's essay addresses at some length the question of design in biology, but does not clearly affirm that reason can grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith.

Balthasar doesn't necessarily mean form in a strictly scholastic sense here; rather he means that reality which we, with our human minds, are able to grasp.

But we can not yet grasp fully and with unfailing security the reality of the divine life to which we are called — in this life we must recognise that we are still marked by the effects of sins, that we still experience weakness andfrailty.

The task is not to preserve them unchanged but to develop them in ways that increase their grasp of reality.

Just as I can't possibly grasp the true nature of the reality of science, I've had to admit that I also can't possibly grasp the true nature of the divine, sacred, God, whatever you want to call it.

Many others, who did grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories of the empty tomb as the basis of my interpretation of that act of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding of the Easter message.

It should be the guide of life, not merely a technical exercise in the analysis of logical problems, but a bold attempt to grasp the structures of reality within the limits of human knowledge and frailty.

For Heidegger, Being is the ultimate reality, though not itself a thing or substance which can be grasped with certainty by the mind or relied upon as a metaphysical ground.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

Obviously that thing Jesus said about loving God and neighbor was added by some nutcase who didn't have a firm grasp on reality.

Don't pretend that your metaphorical grasping is even a symbol of reality.

Obviously Whitehead is not asserting that prehension is a grasping of the object in its physical reality so that the actual entity would be made up of objects like so many physical atoms.

Cobb argues similarly that Buddhism grasps some aspects of «ultimate reality» which Christianity does not explicate as fully.

Buddhism grasps some aspects of «ultimate reality» which Christianity does not explicate as fully.

Those who believe are simply denying the reality of our existence because they can not grasp what it took to happen and can not fathom that death is a very final end.

For the moment, I wish only to stress the relationship which exists between the divine reality and the finite creatures in the world, whether or not this relationship is always fully grasped and given the correct interpretation.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

It is analytic, or rather pseudoanalytic, because it treats the whole body - soul being as composite in nature and hence as dissectible — not the so - called unconscious alone, which is susceptible to a relative objectification, but also the psychic stream itself, which can never in reality be adequately grasped as an object.

The point is not that we decide or act blindly, but that we find ourselves claimed by the reality disclosed in a certain set of happenings — perhaps because of its manifest relevance to issues which are of immediate concern to us — before we have begun to grasp all that it means or implies.

When we can't see out of the forest of our emotions we lose our grasp on reality, we no longer can find true north in order to orient ourselves appropriately to move forward.

You are talking to people who do not have a firm grasp on reality.

God's grace is not radically thought, so long as it is conceived as a possibility in the future instead of being grasped as a reality in the present; for what right would a man have to assert the grace of God, if he did not see it revealed as a concrete reality in his own life?

Reality is, in a sense, doubtless beyond language, as Plato felt so deeply, and can not be wholly grasped in its forms, but when, in order to grasp reality, we abandon linguistic forms, then reality, like quicksilver, runs through our finReality is, in a sense, doubtless beyond language, as Plato felt so deeply, and can not be wholly grasped in its forms, but when, in order to grasp reality, we abandon linguistic forms, then reality, like quicksilver, runs through our finreality, we abandon linguistic forms, then reality, like quicksilver, runs through our finreality, like quicksilver, runs through our fingers.24

The distant God is at the same time the God near at hand, Whose reality is not to be grasped when a man seeks to escape from his own concrete existence, but precisely when he holds it fast.

Perhaps our grasp on reality is not quite so tight as we like to pretend.

Truth consists in the conformity of mind and reality (being)- if the human mind can not know reality, thinking is senseless - but the mind can not grasp individuality as such.

Do some research outside of your buybull to get a better grasp on reality and the LGBT community and attempt not be such a hateful bigot!

It is a reality which has a spiritual root, but which can be grasped by all men of goodwill, whether religious believers or not.

The subject - predicate theory holds that the vulgar form of language enshrines metaphysical reality; this is the easiest metaphysics to grasp, but not true.

True, when we are in the presence of the living God and experience the power of the age to come, we don't «have» the divine reality, as if it were something that we can grasp and handle.

This new belief in the Devil is such an integral part of the Reformation discovery that if the reality of the powers inimical to God is not grasped, the incarnation of Christ, as well as the justification and temptation of the sinner, are reduced to ideas of the mind rather than experiences of faith.

So when it comes to seeking the ultimate Mind, the first and final cause of everything, we can not expect simply tofit the answer inside our heads and grasp ultimate Reality with natural human reasoning, let alone within purely material categories of understanding.

Even though these attempts at typification do not yet lead to consolidated results — Whitehead tries above all to define common sense as a «middle» level between the mathematized natural scientific and the individual emotional grasps of reality — he acquires in this phase several fruitful insights which will also leave their mark on his mature cosmology.

but in reality (something you obviously have a hard time grasping)-- you aren't funny.

Zen Buddhism concerns itself with the «here and now» — reality in the present moment — and not with theories or theology involving ideas about that which can not be grasped directly in the present moment.

Now he has indeed become king, and yet, by despairing over his sin, and about the reality of repentance, about grace, he has also lost himself, be can not even maintain himself in his own eyes, and he is precisely as far from being able to enjoy his own self in ambition as he is from grasping grace.

It is their «faith» that dictates to them that all reality can be collapsed into «matter» and understood exhaustively in terms of that level.5 The most that I can do, therefore, is to show why it is that any conceivable higher level can not be grasped in terms of the lower.

This is clearly not a matter of rational knowledge; rather does the living consciousness grasp reality through the symbol, anterior to reflection.

In this Biffi depicted Anselm's perspective as, contrary to much modern emphasis, grasping that «reality as a whole is much greater than we grasp through simple natural understanding, substantiated solely by sensory experience, inductive and deductive reasoning, mathematical calculation -LSB-...] faith not only is not separable from reason, and does not harm it, but is even the greatest and highest exercise of our intellectual faculty.»

Why is AFC the only self presumed «BIG» in Europe that doesn't quite grasp the universal reality of inflated transfer fees?

My brain's grasp on reality isn't survive enough to withhold such torque.

So at least someone grasps the problem: hostile media is bad, and as long as the principle of this hostility is» #NotMyPresident - because - I - don «t - like - him - because - he's - not - fitting - inside - my - reality» benefits of being confrontational outweigh costs.

I knew what was expected in theory, but I couldn't seem to grasp the reality of it.