Sentence examples for universal state of from inspiring English sources

The notion of the auteur, of the director as creator, isn't the universal state of the art; it's an exceptional achievement.

Twenty years later, in Die Zukunft einer Illusion (1927; The Future of an Illusion), he elaborated this argument, adding that belief in God is a mythic reproduction of the universal state of infantile helplessness.

The Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, for instance, emphasises the universal state of flux of which the self is a mere part: you are me and I am you and we are all the world.

The idea that the human species is striving to achieve any purpose or goal – a universal state of freedom or justice, say – presupposes a pre-Darwinian, teleological way of thinking that has no place in science.

Speaking of vacation, it's the second week of August, that time of the year when "time off" goes from a distant idea to a seemingly universal state of mind.

In this they are considered "citizens of a universal state of human beings" with corresponding "rights of citizens of the world" (8 349, footnote).

That the human body is subject to change is empirically observable in the universal states of childhood, youth, maturity, and old age.

I have always been drawn to the idea of myth being at one remove from universal states of mind, thus avoiding sentimentality, but allowing sentiment to burn through.

This man is almost totally self-involved, but if that's not a near-universal state of being to one degree or another, what is?

Under the National Health Service (NHS) system in the UK, there is universal state provision of healthcare, and mental health Trusts have a close to 100% monopoly for service provision to defined geographic catchment areas.

The dream of a universal church, or a universal state, or the unity of all nations, or a cosmopolitan world order founded on perpetual peace, or whatever, is Satan's most persuasive and dangerous temptation.