Sentence examples for over existence from inspiring English sources

It's the norms that you and I endorse, every second of every day, with every tiny decision we make, that value money over meaning; privilege over purpose; expedience over development; convenience over sophistication; McPleasure over eudaimonia; system over existence.

And his "fretting" over existence has solidified into something more certain: he's gained entry – he claims – into the "locked room" that holds the secret to human perception, and is now convinced that inside is nothing more than a "dream of being a person".

To refute the primacy of essence over existence, Khayyam offers an argument based on the relationship between subject and predicate.

Perhaps following Aristotle, Avicenna favored the primacy of essence over existence, the latter considered an abstract concept.

Once we realize that "I think, therefore I am" took us (all of us, in the planet) to believe that thinking prevails over existence, experience, consciousness, is just a principle that benefits some and damages many, we learn also that the future couldn't be imagined and thought out from the legacy of European philosophical and scientific legacies.

Our species' compulsion to document every aspect of its over-examined existence continues apace.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is once again slipping into the quicksand created by his citywide smoking ban -- not over its existence, but over perceived inconsistencies in enforcing it.

But many traditional ontological disputes are over the existence of necessarily existing kinds of entity, such as mathematical entities or intensional entities.

It was not primarily a debate over the existence of principles of beauty, a matter over which theorists of taste might disagree.

"They have few distractions and even less control over their lives, and they practice sorcery to exert power over their existence," he continued.

What has baffled me over the years was the denial of my own countrymen over the existence of religious menace right in their midst.