Sentences with phrase «possible for human beings»

French philosopher Henri Bergson said that laughter makes social life possible for human beings.

That is, they will be escorted insofar as it is possible for human beings to escort wild creatures which fly high and come to rest in lonely places.

The philosophers would not acknowledge that by «becoming flesh» the divine Logos made it possible for human beings to know God more fully than they could by means of human reasoning alone.

Is it possible for human beings to revere an arbitrary line in the same way they respect a divide imposed by nature?

With two possible sources of confusion removed we can state our thesis: It is possible for human beings, in response to the power and goodness of God, to begin to will His Kingdom above all other things and to grow toward a more mature expression of that will.

Is it possible for us human beings, in the insecurity that marks our existence, to walk in the partial light of the truth that we can comprehend?

Aristotle and Aquinas know of this need but believe the deeper justification of authority lies in the need to order toward a common good the very superabundance of particular goods possible for human beings.

As seen through the lens of divine relativity, the type of knowing postulated of divinity is infinitely stronger than the kind of knowing possible for human beings.

Sin as a concept is only possible for human beings and pure spirits.

It is possible for us human beings to transform many of the minuses in our lives into at least partial pluses!

It is possible for human beings to comprehend the age of the universe as more or less three times the age of our Earth.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

Thus he chose to become one of us, so that we could get to know him to the fullest extent possible for a human being.

He's about as un-Hay as it is possible for a human being to be, but he was prepared to talk and try and explain where he was coming from.

Is it possible for a human being to be invisible?

Not exact matches

We can make it possible for a normal human being to understand what patents are doing.»

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Legendary physicist Feynman won the Nobel Prize for his work in one of the subjects that's the most difficult for the human mind to grasp — quantum mechanics — yet his top advice for accelerating learning is actually to make whatever you're studying as dead simple as possible.

Apparently, it's possible to analogize a business startup to nearly every stage in the human life cycle: There's an article «Starting A Business Is Like Asking Out A Girl For The First Time» and a line in another post declares, «Starting a business is like falling in love.&raquIs Like Asking Out A Girl For The First Time» and a line in another post declares, «Starting a business is like falling in love.&raquis like falling in love.»

As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

If a Martian landed from outer space and spoke a language that violated universal grammar, we simply would not be able to learn that language the way that we learn a human language like English or Swahili... We're designed by nature for English, Chinese, and every other possible human language.

It is clearly possible that super fast trading programs feeding off the panic of humans are responsible for a major portion of the volatility we see in markets today.

«The fundamental question is, as these systems become more capable, is it possible that we will owe some kind of duty, some kind of empathy to them, in the same way that we have that for human beings?»

In this way, it is possible for an on - board computer to get a car closer to the one in front at higher speeds than would be considered safe under human control.

Self - comparison can be a strong influence on human behavior, and because people tend to display the most positive aspects of their lives on social media, it is possible for an individual to believe that their own life compares negatively to what they see presented by others.

Although you'd love it to eventually stand in as a human member of your customer care team, it's not possible for this to happen overnight.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerFor years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerfor example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerfor human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerfor auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

I specifically stated that yours is simply one of many possible ways for a human to find meaning and purpose.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

I would like to point out to those here who think it is not possible for Jesuits (or anyone) to hold science and faith simultaneously, and who invoke «evidence» as the only arbiter of what is real, that human knowledge is always evolving.

We have been chasing our tails for a long time when it comes to self - knowledge, and the whole human / non-human distinction evades us, especially when we are attempting to be «objective,» because we tend to think that true objectivity is possible and even desirable, when in fact true objectivity doesn't exist.

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

It is a tragic, human event that cries to God for justice — an event which would call for earthly justice for the gunman, not possible through the courts because of his suicide.

Thus, for instance, the self - conscious freedom of human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life on this earth and the complexity of the human body.

Only with the dawn of the space age in the 20th century has it been possible for humans to travel far enough into space to verify by direct observation that the earth is a globe.

There is another literature that argues for the preservation of species on the grounds of their possible eventual usefulness to human beings.

Christians have a language for that; they know that human beings are capable of the worst - possible atrocities.

Homo economicus is an individual human being who rationally seeks to gain as many goods as possible for as little labor as possible.

Thanks for enduring the stress so that the weakest members of the human family can hear that it is AT LEAST POSSIBLE to be heard for who we are.

The development of effective birth control methods has made it possible for the unitive function of human sexuality to be expressed more freely, which admittedly given predisposition to selfish predatory behavior is a mixed blessing.

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

• Materialism as the sole basis for human happiness and success, a materialism that is blind to the deeper joy that is possible in adversity or prosperity.

A deep process of renewal had taken place within him: now it would never again be possible for him to be human save on another plane.

But there is also the promise of a unified planetary society living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources of the earth for the benefit of all the earth's living creatures, and opening up prospects of human adventures never before possible.

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

For, relative to the potential total human demand, no possible supply of goods and services is ever sufficient.

They have asked what there is of human value in play - «play» both as the experience itself and as a possible master image for making and keeping human life human.

But this is possible and right in a fantasy world, for the givens of this world are not highly complex beings; the focus is not on human transformation but on the struggle of good and evil forces in the world, a struggle of mythic proportions, and it can be resolved mythically.