Sentences with phrase «thrust upon man»

Now an ultimate choice is thrust upon every man, as he can either turn back in horror at our chaos by engaging in a final No - saying, or he can turn forward and meet our darkness by means of an ultimate Yes - saying, a total affirmation of our actual and immediate existence.

In conclusion, there is a saying of Jesus which perhaps can show how little it is possible to seek for an ethic of Jesus in the sense of an idealistic doctrine of duties and virtues, or in the sense of an ethic of goods or values; how, on the contrary, the responsibility for all concrete moral decisions is thrust upon man, and these decisions are bound up with the one Either - Or, obedience or disobedience.

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However, that obligation that is thrust upon us by man can overwhelm us and make us feel that we have the sole responsibility.

Man must shoulder the responsibility thus thrust upon him and must devise some way of mercifully liberating the helplessly ill from needless existence.

So that in line with, and gradually replacing, the thrust from behind or below, we see the appearance of a force of attraction coming from above which shows itself to be organically indispensable for the continuance of the sequence, indispensable for the maintenance of the evolutionary impetus, and also indispensable for the creation of an atmosphere enveloping Mankind in the process of totalization, of psychic warmth and kindness without which Man's economic - technological grip upon the World can only crush souls together, without causing them to fuse and unite... The «pull» after the «push», as the English would say.

Hence, the church is thrown back upon its own resources to ask whether it has a gospel and a missionary thrust powerful enough to convert men from idolatrous loyalties and provide them with a vision of the future that transforms their basic commitments.

But the film never really delves into either the ennui of the man who doesn't want to shoulder the superhero mantle that's been thrust upon him, nor the aphilosophical man suddenly forced to contemplate things he hasn't had to think about before.

A sewer worker and parasite, Socha does not choose heroism but has it thrust upon him after bumping into a band of Jewish men in the tunnels under Lvov, Poland (later Lviv, Ukraine).

What does Teddy Roosevelt mean when he tells Larry, «Some men are born great, others have greatness thrust upon them»?

These conceits — grounded not in a fantasy universe, but a crime - ridden contemporary LA — are thrust upon us by the latest script from Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra, Victor Frankenstein), a man who never met an overcooked genre mash - up that didn't, seemingly irreversibly, blow his mind.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

After promising to review one last policy paper thrust upon her by a man in the crowd, a chauffeur drove her away.

(all of which is useful and accurate) and good on him, someone has to do it, a man for his time no doubt who had celebrity thrust upon him.