Active Principle Quotes by William Godwin

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• 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,… — David Hume
• An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Giordano Bruno
• Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as… — William Petty

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