Sentences with phrase «remind of our human condition»

How we live our lives is a sign of how we handle death, that unavoidable remind of our human condition.

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In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.

We need to be reminded that it was once taken for granted that authentic education was built upon the teaching and practice of the human and theological virtues, that education, as St Thomas Aquinas put it, is «the progression of the child to the condition of properly human excellence, ie to the state of virtue».

Fourthly, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, through all the ironies and strange turnings of the human spirit there persists the ineradicable dialectical condition wherein every advance makes possible greater destructiveness, and every gain brings new opportunities and larger temptations.

At other times, I waxed philosophical and reminded myself that journalism and science were really just different ways of trying to understand the human condition, two methods of inquiry at the opposite ends of a spectrum.

But along with these and other scientifically significant missions, DSCOVR will also have the ability to inspire new ways of thinking about the true nature of the human condition, by showing us new images everyday that give every person on Earth the ability to see his or her home city or village in the context of the planetary whole, reminding us of our obligation to take good care of what Buckminster Fuller described so long ago as «Spaceship Earth.»