Selves Sentence Examples

But the insistence of idealist writers upon the relation of the world of nature to conscious intelligence, and especially to a universal consciousness realizing itself throughout the history of individuals, rendered it alike impossible to deny altogether some influence of environment upon character, and to regard the history of individual willing selves as consisting in isolated and unconnected acts of.

Put your pathetic selves out of misery and end the charade already.

Such are ascetics, hermits and the like, whose whole object is the realization of their highest selves.

By one act of consecration of our total selves to God, we can make every subsequent act express that consecration.

The Apostle James wrote, " But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

When we become morbid, it is frequently because we are too immersed in our selves.

As he enters puberty, the line between his two selves - his Jekyll and Hyde - is blurred still further.

A brilliant stag do facilitated by your good selves.

Our Swiss fans were their usual brilliant selves, standing in the pissing rain, going wally.

The most unique wedding rings are the one which you design your selves, and there are many mediums to choose from.

It wasn’t until the 1990s that Nimoy rededicatedhis ambitionsto photography and released a popular photo series called "Secret Selves".

It's more of a way to put up a mirror in front of drug users and show that their choices are hurting both loved ones, and most importantly their own selves.

For some, it's been beneficial to have new, slender selves.

The girls continue to get attention from the media as they strive to define their adult selves.

A conversation is an opportunity for us to share something about our selves and to learn something about someone else.

We don't know what those models go through to achieve their slim, svelte selves, but we do know what they probably give up…food.

In each case the clinker which has just been burned and is fully hot serves to heat the air-supply to the compart ment where combustion is actu ally proceeding; in like manner the raw materials about to be burned are well heated by the waste gases from the compartment in full activity before they them selves are burned.

And until the determinist can successfully explain to us how in a world obeying throughout its history necessary laws and limited in its nature to the exhibition of causal sequences the consciousness of freedom could ever have arisen, we may be content to trust the immediate affirmation of our moral selves.

For morality implies a power in the individual of rising above the interests of his own narrower self and identifying himself in the pursuit of a universal good with the true interests of all other selves.

There were many hummers flying around the trees, being their usual awkward selves, although I eventually identified both Berylline and Rufous Hummingbirds.

All the grand viziers he served were them selves converts to Islam.

Know the difference between reasonable safety precautions and hyper-vigilant parenting, which can stunt children's sense of selves, even from a young age.

Single Virgos shouldn't be surprised to find their selves quickly and completely in love when Jupiter is on the move.

Whether we are running a company or a carpool, when we don't take a breather and focus on our non-parent selves, our joy is too often displaced by feelings of resentment and pointless stress.

Thus James (ibid.) classifies the various "selves" as the material, the spiritual, the social and the "pure."

The scantiness of historical tradition makes a final solution impossible, but the study of these years has an important bearing on the history of the later Judaean state, which has been characteristically treated from the standpoint of exiles who returned from Babylonia and regard them selves as the kernel of " Israel."

The Christian attainment is nothing else than the thorough intellectual grasp of the absolute idea and the identification of our essential selves with God.

Moreover, certain maternity lingerie designers have created such elaborate and feminine designs so that mothers can feel every bit as sexy as their pre-baby selves!

So long as libertarians contend that what alone possesses moral value is unmotived choice, acts of will of which no explanation can be given save the arbitrary fiat of individual selves at the moment of decision, it is not difficult for determinists to exhibit the absurdities to which their arguments lead.

Fichte transformed this unity of the conscious self into a unity of all conscious selves, or a common consciousness; and this change enabled him to explain the unity of anything produced by the Ego by contending that it is not the different objects of different thinkers, but the one object of a pure Ego or consciousness common to them all.

Thus Kant distinguished the two selves as rational and empirical, just as he distinguished the two egos as the noumenal or real and the phenomenal from the metaphysical standpoint.