Sentence examples for human inclinations from inspiring English sources

And "adult" fables, from Aesop to Gulliver's Travels, have always used animals to project human inclinations outwards in order to make stories.

And this decision, rather than following along a perfectly manicured line of reasoning and evidence, relies on that least scientific of all human inclinations — the simple leap of faith.

I think this has potential to do much damage to children's psyche by denying children's natural, human inclinations by judging their behavior as sinful.

That line now reads: "Homosexuality is a manifestation of the disturbance and brokenness in human inclinations and relations caused by the entrance of sin into the world.

In one well-recorded moment, he elevated Bilal to such a position of esteem that, to this day, Muslims, in spite of all human inclinations to differentiate on the basis of race and difference, find it easy to respect and accept people from different races and ethnicities within their fold and consider them as moral equals.

Part of Kant's point is, however, worth attending to: Kant believed that by committing suicide, an individual is somehow giving in to human inclinations (the inclination an individual might feel, for example, to turn their back on a difficult situation they could confront more forthrightly).

A primatologist, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, found that babies' ability to solicit attentive care from its mother and anyone else helped affirm the human inclination toward cooperation.

For me, such pinpoint categorisations risk a human inclination to (as Wordsworth said of those analysing nature's beauty too closely) "murder to dissect".

Harnessing a natural human inclination toward gossip, complaint, prediction and obsession, they are using TV show Web sites to offer clips, outtakes, interviews, games, message boards and blogs — not to mention entire episodes.

The business thinker Peter Drucker might have agreed — success in business requires, as he called it, "intellectual integrity" — the ability to resist our human inclination to color a situation for better or worse, and instead to have one's perception exactly mirror the situation as it exists in the real world.

When Mencius is attributed the water-metaphor view of the human inclination toward goodness, Xunzi's criticism has a point.