Sentences with phrase «things about human nature»

Here are the things about human nature that keep us failing to change.

For your whole life you've heard the voices of the dominant culture saying negative things about human nature, children, teenagers, siblings, parents, and parenting.

Some things about human nature never change.

The thing about human nature is, that it doesn't change.

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And they're justified in doing so with opinions about things that don't change much, like human nature.

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

Jefferson said some critical things about religion and human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

God has given us much evidence of His existence: how about the intricacies of how the human body works - can you really believe that happened without a master plan; what about the beauty of nature - can we really think that that just happened; what about the testimony of millions throughout the ages including Scientists attempting to disprove God, that point to things beyond their comprehension or doing.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

More must now be said about why, conceptually, it is important to see that religious commitment involves making serious claims as to the nature of things, what the setting of human life is like, as well as serious claims as to how human persons should behave in that setting.

The church members find dialogue difficult because they rarely question their presuppositions about human nature or how truth is known.3 Yet, these things are similar in many ways.

Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.

As you say, Marx appears to talk about ideas that are good, and you don't notice the essential elements that are missing from his ideologies — such as the rightful place of humans under God and in relation to one another — the recognition of imperfect and sinful nature of humanity, the inherent dignity of created things.

All bad things about the Church are coming from fallen human nature and from the devil trying to destroy it but he will never succeed as promised by Jesus.

Modern culture tends to affirm two related things about human beings: first, that we are autonomous individuals, belonging to ourselves and accountable only to ourselves; second, that we are basically good by nature.

The novel is full, too, of wonderful throwaway observations about human nature («Lancelot shrugged his shoulders — one of the stupidest things to do when the other party wants to have a fight»).

Here is the culmination of Israel's thought about natural law: a glorious day should dawn when man's jungle impulses would atrophy, when right would triumph deep in human nature, and society would pursue its happy course in a state of «anarchy,» of «no law,» because everyone would do the high and noble thing through his love for it, in obedience to the unwritten law inscribed on his heart!

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

Emphasizing to program participants and students how climate change is impacting the things that people care about (nature, water resources, and health) and appeal to the inherent human connection to nature.

They have significant things to say about therapy and the nature of human consciousness.

You know, a human being has something about her that is shared by a mosquito, in [an] elephants, in [an] orchid, but which is not shared by other things in nature, like a hurricane or a rock.

Like all things of a watery nature (human beings are about 70 % water), we are affected by the phases of the moon.

I like thinking alot about different things in life, ranging from the nature of reality to the nature of human consciousness to the even more mind boggling question of whether or...

Of course, «It Happens One Night» comes to mind, but The Sure Thing is so sparkling and original in its humor, so perceptive about human nature in its own right, that its key elements seem classic, not carbons.

In fact, the best thing about the film is when it captures what it's like to be on the side of a mountain, a sheer cliff face that really wasn't designed by Mother Nature to be inhabited by humans.

It's human nature to perseverate on the things that bother us — we're more likely to talk about our aches and pains than about the things that are working just fine.

Conservatives raise concerns about how things will play out, focusing on the immutability of human nature, institutional constraints, and all those forces sure to frustrate ambitious plans.

Around the holidays each year I like to revisit that story, because it's a good reminder about how fast things have changed — and how sometimes the biggest challenge is simply our own stubborn human nature!

It is human nature to question and understand things, but dogs don't really care about it.

Carol Kaesuk Yoon, who writes frequently for Science Times and in 2002 collaborated with me on a story about the growing human influence on that thing called «nature,» had a thought - provoking essay in the paper this week titled «Nature Follows a Path of Pixels Into Children's Hearts.&nature,» had a thought - provoking essay in the paper this week titled «Nature Follows a Path of Pixels Into Children's Hearts.&Nature Follows a Path of Pixels Into Children's Hearts.»

Human nature is such that people go into denial about thing like this.

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

It also seems well in human nature to let bad things happen before we decide to actually do something about it.

I'm just wondering if there is something in human nature that stops us worrying about too many things at once.

In previous articles, we have written about how Canadian Human Rights legislation confers broad powers on adjudicators to make damage awards for wage and other financial loss, for damage to dignity, feelings or self - respect, and for exemplary damages to drive home the heinous nature of impugned conduct; to order employers to institute educational programs; or to do other pro-active things to secure compliance with the Code.

I'm also a psychology major so I try to incorporate things I've learned about human nature and patterns of thinking into my negotiating.

Human nature is that people have a tendency to freak out about things and be skeptical.