75 Metaphors for basis

In moral philosophy, Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), lawyer and philosopher, laid down the principle that happiness is the prime object of existence, and that the basis of legislation should be the greatest happiness to the greatest number, instead of to the privileged few.

The memorable lines on spring in the second book are cast into the form of old poetry, but the basis of them is Epicurean energism, as in Lucretius' prooemium.

The real basis of sentiment is the new science of Sociology and the new sense of altruismfirst named by Auguste Comte and first brought to the American people in and by this "Positivist Episode.

Thus religion grows out of egoism: its basis is the difference between our will and our power; its aim, to set us free from the dependence which we feel before nature.

His fundamental basis is the stock Horatian "omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," or as Harington paraphrases, "for in verse is both goodness and sweetness, Rubarb and Sugarcandie, the pleasant and the profitable."

The ultimate basis of our magnificent modern scientific and material progress is the inspiration given to the human race by the Protestant Reformation.

Its basis has been secrecy: therein is the triumph of absolutism, and the misfortune of a free people.

The other bases are ignorance, vulgarity, mental laziness, sentimentality, and greed.

The bases of the columns are chiefly untouched Roman work.

The criminal repudiates his social obligations, not acknowledging the fact that the basis of all society is the recognition of the rights of others.

They have nothing to do but to give them some cordial or elixir, whose basis is opium.

The basis of that state was the tribe, not the family or the individual; after its political disintegration the separate tribes remained in existence.

Its basis was a certain confidence in human nature.

The true basis of regulation of rates at the common law and in English history was monopoly; either a franchise directly granted by the crown, such as a bridge, ferry, or dock, or one which was geographically, at least, exclusive, like a dock without a franchise.

The basis of it is the history of the House of Hohenzollern, with volumes devoted to the Danish and Austrian campaigns and minute descriptions of every phase of all the battles with France in 1870, written in a curious hysterical fashion.

The basis for the following remarks on Spanish prosody is, for the most part, E. Benot's Prosodia Castellana y Versification, 3 vols., Madrid, 1892.

Now the principle universally laid down by all mental healers, in whatever various terms they may explain it, is that the basis of all healing is a change in belief.

Struggling in the Slough of Despond, she had come upon one worse mired than she, for whose sake she must search yet more vigorously after the hidden stepping-stonesthe peaks whose bases are the center of the world.

Income taxation is that form in which the basis of the assessment and levy is the income of the taxpayer as it arises (not accumulated wealth, or capital, or business processes, or expenditures).

2. The basis of the government under which they thus were placed, was righteousnessstrict, stern, impartial.

" It has a similar "princely brow," being placed upon an abrupt elevation of a kind of natural cliff, forming the termination of a peninsular hill, the basis of which is red grit stone, but now covered with vegetable mould, well turfed by nature and art, and varied into terraces of different elevation.

One either formally stated, or virtually assumed, that the deepest basis of all religious knowledge was the testimony of sense to some fact, which is ascertained to be miraculous when examined by the light of Physics or Physiology; and that we must, at least in a great degree, distrust and abandon our moral convictions or auguries, at the bidding of sensible miracle.

The basis of all morality is self-sacrifice, the willingness to give up our wishes to the will of another.

The basis of the island is a coarse-grained granite.

Of course the basis of our further evolution is conformity to the harmonious nature of the Originating Spirit; but upon this foundation we each have to build up the superstructure of our own individuality, and every step of advance depends on our personal development of power to take that step.

75 Metaphors for  basis