Sentence examples for against eternity from inspiring English sources

Weighed against eternity, what were the arguments of mining magnates, plume hunters, local businesses and assorted congressmen?

It was considered extremely meritorious to commission a stepwell, an earthbound bastion against eternity, and it is believed that one-fourth of those wealthy or powerful philanthropists were female.

It is undeniable that human beings have always longed for more, have yearned for possessions that will serve as a bulwark against existential desolation, as an illusion against eternity – the tombs of history are strewn with precious objects to accompany the deceased even into the afterlife.

The third stage is represented by one, perhaps two, non-polemical treatises that have survived in fragments which indicate that numerous arguments against eternity and for creation were arranged in some kind of systematic order.

When al-Kindi comes to argue explicitly against the eternity of the world, he uses Philoponus' strategy of using Aristotle against himself.

Later on in the West, the arguments against the eternity of the world also persuaded Bonaventure (1217-1274) and Gersonides (1288-1344), and impetus theory was reaffirmed by Buridan (1300-1361) and his pupil Oresme (1325-1382).

One is American, one Anglo-Bengali, one Israeli, but the issues that they address – memory, ritual, the blaze of life set against the dark eternity of the void – are common to all.

Why should he know that diabolical good and evil when it costs so much?" Perhaps, Ivan concedes, there will be some final harmony, in which every tear is wiped away and every human woe is revealed as insignificant against the glories of eternity.

Even though there are no compelling reasons to ascribe it to the milieu of Hunayn, the translation of Philoponus' treatise Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World[88] might trace back to this period.[89] Olympiodorus.

Trying to find the perfect way to express the visions trapped inside me is like being a tiny bird pecking against the stone mountain of eternity.

The treatise Against Proclus is followed by a second and even more provocative publication, On the Eternity of the World against Aristotle.