Sentence examples for views of time from inspiring English sources

Variations in the two basic views of time and in the corresponding codes of conduct have been among the salient characteristics distinguishing the principal civilizations and philosophies and higher religions that have appeared in history to date.

Some salvation arrives in the form of an out-of-work schoolteacher, a genteel hobo who not only helps Oscar with his math homework but also explains Einstein's views of time travel.

To test how new this school really is, Coupland might consider different cultures' views of time — especially since the central characters in the novel are a Sikh and a Jew.

By the time the New Testament was written, Jewish apocalyptic writings (symbolic or cryptographic literature portraying God's dramatic intervention in history and catastrophic dramas at the end of a cosmic epoch) had already produced theories of history that reworked Indo-Iranian notions about the ages of the world, influencing Christian views of time, history, and human destiny.

The thesis proved particularly shocking to conventional philosophical views of time, which held (for example) that only the present is real or that time passes through a continuous succession of "now"s or that the past (but not the future) is metaphysically settled.

In fact they tend to embrace eastern faiths and native cultures with their cyclical views of time.

It was an expression of the view of time that had been held for many centuries, by both Jewish and Christian commentators.

The slow movement on the periphery began to seem like the long view of time, the faster central movement the accumulation of moments.

Writer tells about his view of time, how he learned to adjust to the natural course of things decaying and new things replacing old.

Thinkers have been divided between holders of the cyclic view and holders of the one-way view of time and between believers in the different prescriptions for the conduct of life that these differing views have suggested.

This "flying globe" — so-called because it is fixed at only one end, the South Pole, of its rotational axis — offers an intuitive view of time all over the world, including day time and night time.