Active Principle Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit. — Ernest Holmes
• .. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. — William Godwin
• 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
• 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

Who Wrote These Active Principle Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Active Principle Quotes as follows:

• 1 Active Principle Quote by Paul Valery
• 1 Active Principle Quote by William Godwin
• 1 Active Principle Quote by Giordano Bruno
• 1 Active Principle Quote by William Petty
• 1 Active Principle Quote by Ernest Holmes
• 1 Active Principle Quote by David Hume
• 1 Active Principle Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• 1 Active Principle Quote by Luther Standing Bear
• 1 Active Principle Quote by Teresa de Lauretis