Sentence examples for tendency of mind from inspiring English sources

DeVos's resort to canned answers — the fruits of a quick Google search on the part of an aide, perhaps, or the expression of a reflexive, rote tendency of mind — might not earn her good grades in a high-school social-studies class.

He said that to fail to investigate a principle operating at the level of the whole organism or at the level of populations would go against the "Aristotelian" tendency of mind of the scientific culture.

Rather, the data support a psychological interpretation regarding a tendency of the mind to unify its contents in different ways, resulting in slightly different experiences on different occasions.

Rather, these associations between perception and thinking are due to the habitual tendency of the mind towards conceptual proliferation, for as the Buddha declares in his discourses, the perceptual experience of ordinary people is replete with mistaken apprehensions.

For a long time I would become hooked on the person/personality instead and I've had to find my own coping mechanisms to deal with that tendency of my mind.

Thus Hume's treatment of substance is like his treatment of causation, in that he sees both as the projection onto the world of a tendency of our minds either to pass from one thing to another or to associate them in some way.

Betrayal has been a tendency of mine.

So even though in Sahaj Marg we start with the last three steps of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga – dharana followed by dhyana, culminating in samadhi – the other steps are taken care of because of the newly-cultivated balanced tendencies of the mind.

The academic tendency of Vignola's mind is epitomized in his Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura of 1562, which remained a standard textbook on the architectural orders for three centuries.

It is primarily on account of this proliferating tendency of the ordinary mind that notions such as self and other are superimposed upon the constant flow of phenomena.

"Sigmund Freud once described the phenomenon of 'repetition compulsion', which is a tendency of the subconscious mind to relive the trauma of the past by recreating it in the present".