Sentence examples for Lower nature from inspiring English sources

He would not let his conscience strike a bargain with his lower nature, and he suffered for it.

There will be no battling in the Soul: the mere intervention of Reason is enough: the lower nature will stand in such awe of Reason that for any slightest movement it has made it will grieve, and censure its own weakness, in not having kept low and still in the presence of its lord.

And so the gadfly of Copenhagen concludes, "And this is how perhaps the great majority of men live: They work gradually at eclipsing their ethical and ethical-religious comprehension, which would lead them out into decisions and conclusions that their lower nature does not much care for".

Humans can ascend through their own intellect to the level of universal Soul, become that whole that they already are potentially, and, in Soul, attain to Intellect itself; or they can isolate themselves on the lower level, shutting themselves up in the experiences, desires, and concerns of their lower nature.

Certainly it is not just the fish we are supposed to sympathize with in "To the Young Anglerfish," when Ryan, spurred by a quotation from Stephen Jay Gould, sympathizes with a creature caught in mid-evolution, its lower nature at war with its higher one: Meanwhile, the problems of life enhance: an awkwardness attends the mating dance and an inexplicable thoughtfulness at the wrong moments.

Research permissions to sample European beech trees at Schlossberg and Eldena were provided by the Jasmund National Park and the lower nature conservation authority Vorpommern-Greifswald, respectively.

Cudworth developed his theory by reflecting on Plotinus's Enneads, where Plotinus makes use of the Greek term synaisthesis (literally: "sensed with") to distinguish lower natures from higher.

In order to rise from their lower, selfish nature into an unselfish, spiritual nature, the society taught, everyone should obey the law of their being and subdue passions and impulses that control them by nature.

Dyes from natural origin are believed healthier over synthetic ones, but due to lower substantive nature, durability and narrow shade range on textiles of them need further advancement in the application of bio-colorants for coloration and finishing of textile materials [13, 68].

Furthermore, its lower bound nature makes it safer than the yield line method.

Wang, C.-Y., Shock-wave data for several minerals and their implication on mineral phases in the lower mantle, Nature, 218, 560-563, 1968.