Sentence examples for goodness one from inspiring English sources

In "The Fragility of Goodness," one of the best-selling contemporary philosophy books, she rejected Plato's argument that a good life is one of total self-sufficiency.

There is, thank goodness, one genuinely touching character – Michonnet, the loyal impresario whose love for Adriana is unrequited, and whose performance here by baritone Richard Burkhard is richly sung and quite beautifully judged.

If we want to sustain a nation of goodness, one that defies evil, maybe we should embrace the unfiltered missive given by Robbie Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie died at Sandy Hook: "May it be that this inspires us to be better, to be more compassionate and more humble people -- to better our communities -- at all times".

Following on general Neoplatonic intuitions, this means that when one has attained the heights of truth and goodness, one will have reverted to one's truest life, a pure state of soul which transcends mortal life we might describe it as a kind of immortality while in the mortal body.

"Oh, my goodness," one of the men said when he spotted Erdei, leaping out of his seat to shake hands.

Rather, it requires that one embody goodness in one's relationships with others.

First, Cooper's Aristotle claims, living well requires that one know the goodness of one's own life; however, given the perpetual possibility of self-deception, one is able accurately to evaluate one's own life only through friendship, in which one's friend acts as a kind of mirror of one's self.

Mr. Rubenstein quoted Mr. Kushner as saying: "Thank goodness no one was hurt.

His tough, unshowy goodness is one of the film's consolations, though not its point.

So thank goodness no one tried to reconstruct the authorship of The Tenderness of Wolves, the 2006 Costa-Award winning novel set in the snowy wastes of Canada in 1867.

In a forthcoming paper with Sydney Scott and Yoel Inbar, Rozin argues that the tendency to conflate naturalness with goodness is one basic reason G.M.O.s are facing such an uphill battle.