Sentences with phrase «pervading nature»

Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander speculate on the pervading nature of analogy in our thought processes, «from throwaway remarks to...

Nature, though fallen, is never abandoned by grace; grace, though supernatural, pervades nature.

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If a new meaning of nature has pervaded modern history, an autonomous world existing in - itself, then so likewise man himself no longer appears as the image of a transcendent Creator.

Genuine laws of nature (fundamental physical laws) are omnitemporal: they hold always and everywhere — they pervade space - time, so to speak.

And in doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product of its abstracting as though it were reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.

Jainism holds that because of the indeterminate nature of Reality, different viewpoints are possible and that none can claim final knowledge of the truth — which brings us back to the pervading sense of Mystery.

The fulfillment of personality is thus a form of communion, whether it be with the God a man worships; or with nature under some aspect; or through intimate communication with ideal things, the inexhaustible quality of beauty or truth that pervades the universe; or with some cause that calls into action all one's powers; or even with things of lesser significance so long as they satisfy the human craving for union.

As more imprecise support for a circle of discipleship to Isaiah, one calls attention to the nature of the present book of Isaiah, the remarkable unity pervading its various major sections (including not only chs.

We know that communism was a theology, a church militant, with sacred texts and with saints and martyrs and prophets, with doctrines about the nature of the world and of humankind, with immutable laws and millennial visions and life - pervading judgments about the nature of good and evil.

«No one who has seen what I have seen», he wrote in 1892, «and still more surely no one who has been influenced as I have been, can doubt that there must be an all - pervading spirit in nature, and this spirit is God; and the essence of the spirit is Love»» (27).

But -LSB-...] to grasp reality as it is, we must return to our pre-scientific and post-scientific knowledge, the tacit knowledge that pervades science -LSB-...] Prior to both science and theology is philosophy, the «science of common experience» -LSB-...] Modern science first excludes a priori final and formal causes, then investigates nature under the reductive mode ofmechanism (efficient and material causes)-LSB-... It is] reason -LSB-... which grasps] the «vertical» causation of formality and finality».

It may even help pin down the nature of the dark matter that pervades the universe.

The beautiful nature of Jackson Hole is brought inside, a valley - inspired aesthetic inspired by natural hues and materials pervades the entire home.

With energetic white markings on a grey ground, the drawing celebrates the expressive possibilities of line both as autonomous object and as sign, while its undulating forms anticipate the imagery of nature that pervades his later work.

Her installations, created with rubbish, discarded objects and the detritus of everyday life, combine the anonymous and banal nature of the materials (wood, stone, cement, metal) with a sense of the immediacy, spontaneity and poetry that pervades them.

In all, a sense of nature's magnificence and meaning pervades.

With lumpy, flesh - colored ceramics that allude to the bodies that once sat on the upholstered cushions and a title connecting the temporal nature of news with the optimistic pride many Americans felt at the time, the artist captures how global events pervade and shape our daily realities.

Through a shifting exchange of abstraction and figuration, the book in all its forms pervades Ruscha's investigations of the nature of language and the distribution of information.

There is a sense of curiosity and lively wonder that pervades Johnson's images; nature's living energy is reframed by human hands to form interesting geometric shapes, patterns, or supernatural movements — such as Johnson's brilliant work with fire.