Sentence examples for individual existence from inspiring English sources

He's challenging our sense of both democratic and individual existence.

A dignified individual existence, she believes, requires distance from others, the "interspace" that she described in the Hamburg speech.

"Pampering," writes Sloterdijk with latter-day Dostoevskyan disdain, "the expectation of security without struggle, has infused almost every individual existence today, regardless of gender".

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins closed the convention with a discussion on the probability of our existence, the luck of individual existence, gratitude, evolution and the illusion of design.

He sees a population lost in consumption, the meaning of individual existence vanished in a fog of wanting, buying and owning too many things.

"Each also is an individual existence, as matchless as a thumbprint or a snowflake," James Agee wrote in his introduction to the original edition.

What I believe is that everything is written in the stars--the story of our planet, our solar system, our own individual existences--all existed in blueprint form and go through a protracted cycle of birth, life and death.

Hubbard may be the inspiration for Dodd, a writer who advances a quasi-religious philosophy known as "the Cause" that finds psychic trauma in prenatal experience or past lives, framing individual existences as part of a "battle that's a trillion years in the making".

The reference astonished Ghosh because of its medieval date, "when the only people for whom we can even begin to imagine properly human, individual existences are the literate and the consequential... the people who had the power to inscribe themselves physically upon time".

Inasmuch as it characterizes the universe as composed of a plurality of individual existences, none of which has any genuine causal efficacy over any other, Leibniz's position shows considerable affinities with Hume's empiricism.

This can result in conjoined twins, who may or may not be able to be separated to live individual existences.