Sentences with phrase «nature of human folly»

I look towards ruins and antiquity to contemplate and highlight the fall of empire, the fleeting nature of human folly, the futile striving towards platonic forms and the implicit mystery of antiquity.

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(d) Nevertheless, nature is not to be evaluated simply in terms of human needs and interests; to think that it is, is simply a mark of folly.

There are frequent references in Moral Sentiments to a «divine Being», «the great Director of the universe», «the all-wise Author of Nature» to obey whose will is considered as the first rule of duty of human beings; even their vices and follies fitted into the grand design of the Author of Nature whose hand always brought about a cosmic harmony.

Deceptively clever and possessing an innate understanding for the follies of human nature, the film is a romantic comedy that offers up more thoughtful questions than one with pre-conceived judgments may expect.

With the nine oil paintings and three works on paper that comprise the exhibition, Miller continues to explore the narrative potential of the animal world by revisiting many of the themes that she has surveyed in her work for the past thirty years, including the relationship between predator and prey, the effect of changing habitats upon both flora and fauna, the folly of our human sense of control over nature, and the passage of time.