Active Principle Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.
— Ernest Holmes
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.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final…
— David Hume
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a…
— Luther Standing Bear
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The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the…
— Teresa de Lauretis
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Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any…
— Paul Valery
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
— William Godwin
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Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant…
— Giordano Bruno
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Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the…
— William Petty
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