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Example sentences for "selfhood"

Lexicographically close words:
selfe; selfes; selff; selffe; selffis; selfish; selfishly; selfishness; selfless; selflessness
  1. The text next proceeds to set forth that the small ether possesses Selfhood and certain desirable auspicious qualities-this is done in the passage 'It is the Self free from sin' &c.

  2. In agreement with this the Reverend ParĂ¢sara has said, 'Hear from me the essential nature of Nescience; it is the attribution of Selfhood to what is not the Self.

  3. I" is a label denoting a mass of associated ideas, and as these ideas are capable of almost endless variation, so the notion of selfhood is correspondingly diversified in different individuals.

  4. It is a mistake to suppose that the idea of selfhood stands off independently from the elements of our environment.

  5. Coercion in any form blights and dwarfs the true selfhood of the child.

  6. The destruction of selfhood was the great evil of the old system of teaching.

  7. The character of his real selfhood had been destroyed, not developed, by his "education.

  8. The limitations of law have been used to define the course the child should not take; they should have defined the course he ought to take, and within the range of which course he should use his selfhood in the freest possible way.

  9. They are barbarians, who understand neither the new education nor the new theology, who have not learned to recognise and reverence the individual selfhood of each child, who themselves fear God's power more than they feel his love.

  10. It has new meaning every day as our reverence for the divinity in the child grows stronger, and the absolute need of the development of his selfhood by his own self-activity becomes clearer.

  11. Dickens believed in the distinctive soul as the real selfhood of each child, and as the only true reality in his nature, the dominating influence in his life and character.

  12. Liberty and noble outdoor sports are the best agencies yet revealed to man for the development of full selfhood in harmony with the fundamental law of education, self-activity.

  13. Our work is to change the direction of the outflowing selfhood when it is wrong, to direct it to new and better interest centres, but never to stop it or turn it back upon itself.

  14. Evil is not merely defect, privation, but something positive, selfhood breaking away, the reversal of the rightful order between the particular and the universal will.

  15. Hence any trait of character which makes for these goods is esteemed; it is given positive value; while any disposition of selfhood found to have a contrary tendency is condemned--has negative value.

  16. There is nothing in the selfhood of others, because they are others, which gives it any supremacy over selfhood in oneself.

  17. Even in its revised version utilitarianism did not wholly escape from the rigid unreal separation between the selfhood of the agent and his social surroundings forced upon it by its hedonistic psychology.

  18. This realization of selfhood in the right course of action is, however, not the end of a moral act--that is, it is not the only end.

  19. Every good act realizes the selfhood of the agent who performs it; every bad act tends to the lowering or destruction of selfhood.

  20. What is the place of selfhood in the moral process?

  21. You should have no interest in yourself as you stand; because a larger selfhood lies beyond you, and you should be going forth and claiming your heritage there.

  22. A personal being, in some degree emancipated from time, consequently emerges, and a selfhood appears, built up through enduring interests.

  23. Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind.

  24. The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal 316:6 selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship.

  25. Renewed selfhood Let the "male and female" of God's creating appear.

  26. Matter's supposed selfhood Matter is neither self-existent nor a product of Spirit.

  27. Man's genuine selfhood is recognizable only in what is good and true.

  28. The great pyramidal I AM is complete only as all sides of your selfhood are fully built up.

  29. The real selfhood of every one of us is God's idea of us.

  30. So the Christ is the real selfhood of each of us.

  31. The Christ was the real, spiritual selfhood of the man Jesus.

  32. Nevertheless, the evil attending this type of teaching is, to our thinking, great and serious, designed to undermine selfhood and to set up a species of dry-rot at the very centre.

  33. But through its mysterious power of selfhood and self-determination the evil will is able to assume an attitude of hostility to the divine law, which forthwith vindicates itself by appropriate reactions.

  34. He deprives both physical and psychical existences of that degree of selfhood or independent reality which is essential to both science and religion.

  35. Then, your very selfhood seems to cease, as it does in all your moments of great passion; and you are "satisfied and overflowing, and with Him beyond yourself eternally fulfilled.

  36. Therefore the mystics tell us perpetually that "selfhood must be killed" before Reality can be attained.

  37. The young man is Milton, starting on his journey "to annihilate the selfhood of deceit and false forgiveness.

  38. Yet selfhood (Ichheit) has come forth at this period in considerably sharper manifestation.

  39. His sacred selfhood disappeared under ownership by the Government, by which he was held and used as a machine for military service.

  40. No selfhood remains in man but the physical organism which, in material causation, gives out the various forms of products or manifestations denominated "mental.

  41. With this sense of selfhood there have grown up in humanity the faculties of Conscience and of Will.

  42. For all complex action, regarding distant ends and involving choice and discrimination, the faculty of analysis, with which selfhood is bound up, is absolutely essential.

  43. But return he must; for selfhood is not an accident or a deformity, not a thing to be despised and shuffled off the moment we can get rid of it.

  44. If selfhood as such is a bad thing, the blame lies not with the self but with the universe, with providence.

  45. If money-making is morally obnoxious it is because of the way these social facts are handled, not because a money-making man has withdrawn from society into an isolated selfhood or turned his back upon society.

  46. The biological view of selfhood regards it as a function, activity, process, inseparable from the social matrix out of which it has arisen.

  47. There is, however, no clear indication that she was at any time so far developed as to see or hear spirits or specters, nor that her own selfhood ever yielded up to another's use her physical organs of speech or action.

  48. Her own selfhood fought against his cruelties, and she felt sorry for what she was forced to do.

  49. Then man feels and knows the presence there of an intense and creative vitality, an Eternal Essence, from which all that is worth having in his selfhood flows.

  50. Asserting a selfhood apart from God, is a denial of man's spiritual sonship; for it claims another father.

  51. This is the "Holy Grail" of selfhood and in the light of our higher understanding we look downward and outward and upward, and the length and the breadth and the height are equal.

  52. The pride of her selfhood had been overthrown.

  53. Here was a girl, really a child in age, but already almost a woman in selfhood and imagination.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selfhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agreement; coincidence; congruence; correspondence; differentiation; equality; equivalence; homogeneity; identity; individualism; individuality; integrity; nominalism; nonconformity; oneness; personality; sameness; selfishness; singularity; soul; synonymy; unity; wholeness