Sentence examples for blind striving from inspiring English sources

But he held that science, which investigates the phenomenal world, cannot penetrate the real world behind appearances, which is dominated by a strong, blind, striving, universal cosmic Will that expresses itself in the vagaries of human instinct, in sexual striving, and in the wild uncertainties of animal behaviour.

Neither can it be located at the level of Will as it is in itself, because the Will is a blind striving, without knowledge, and without satisfaction.

He differed from Kant, however, in seeing the Will as the source of all our endless suffering, a blind striving power without ultimate purpose or design (The World as Will and Representation, §56 p. 310 and §57 p. 311).

If we combine his claim that the world is Will with his Kantian view that we are responsible for the individuated world of appearances, we arrive at a novel outlook — an outlook that depends heavily upon Schopenhauer's characterization of the thing-in-itself as Will, understood to be an aimless, blind striving.

Adding to this, Schopenhauer concludes in The World as Will and Representation that we create the violent state of nature, for he maintains that the individuation that we impose upon things, is imposed upon a blind striving energy that, once it becomes individuated and objectified, turns against itself, consumes itself, and does violence to itself.

In his philosophical opus of 1818, Schopenhauer portrays the will as a blind, striving urge to life, determining human experience and perpetuating an [End Page 527] endless cycle of desire, pain, and suffering.

Blind, blind?

"Butterflies" starred Keir Dullea as Don Baker, the earnest, striving blind man; Eileen Heckart as his mother; and Blythe Danner as Jill Tanner, the flaky young woman who lives next door, falls in love with him, leaves him and finally returns.

It is also frightening and pandemonic: he maintains that the world as it is in itself (again, sometimes adding "for us") is an endless striving and blind impulse with no end in view, devoid of knowledge, lawless, absolutely free, entirely self-determining and almighty.

Roth's Berlin is a city striving for a blind modernity amid shame and nostalgia.

Until the contentions for power subside and the guilt reactions attached to deposing the leader dissolve, individuals remain vulnerable to their own blind spots and unconscious reactions to striving for power.