Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.
We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.
I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration. The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.
modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and. . . it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.
The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.
I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings.
Flying is done largely with the imagination.
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
. . . heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business. . . Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.
Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age". . . In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.
A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. . . Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness. . . Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.
Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites.