111 Metaphors for beings

No one, however, could attribute a feministic spirit to Grillparzer; or, if so, it must be said that the study of reaction is no less instructive than the study of action and that being is at least as high an ideal as doing.

And in ancient times, no less than at the present day, such living beings as these have been the greatest of rock builders.

* ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS).The being (nature) of the good is a certain will; the being of the bad is a certain kind of will.

Human beings were perhaps the principal characters in his stories, but they were certainly not the only characters.

A created being cannot be the Supreme Creator.

The only human being to whom Louis showed any love was a young falconer, Albert de Luynes,and with De Luynes he conspired against his mother's power and her favorite's life.

Corruption cannot stir in us, but therein we sin, for the very first rise, the motus primo-primi, as they are called, are sinful, being contrary to the holy law of God; and the very in-being of that old man is our sin; for it is sinful, and rebellious against God, yea it is very enmity and rebellion itself.

What Goethe says in the Westöstlicher Divan is quite true, that it is useless to complain against your enemies; for they can never become your friends, if your whole being is a standing reproach to them: Was klagst du über Feinde? Sollten Solche je warden

The unhappy beings who were perished may have been the inmates of the dwelling.

Incogitative, hence passive, beings are neither substances, nor capable of producing ideas in us.

It is not recorded whether the invisible being was a ghost or one of the Sidhe, but the fantastic nature of the vengeance is like the work of the Sidhe who live in the heart of fantasy.

The work of cutting a ship channel across the shoulder of the sand-bar before referred to is in progress, the distance being but a few hundred feet of loose earth, which, when completed, will open communication to an immense bay, where all the commerce of the lakes might ride at anchor in perfect safety, were some slight dredging done to increase the present depth of water.

Her very being was a protest against the opposing and yet cognate heresies that half the normal human passions must be strangled in the quest of virtue, and that the attainment of virtue is a dull and undesirable end, seeing that it implies the sacrifice of most that makes life interesting."

The Supreme Being is a wesen, Being, Vui; we have hardly a term for an immortal existence so undefined.

If the being is an idealised first ancestor (as among the Kurnai), he is not, on that account, either man or ghost of man.

The Divine Being who is mirrored in the Bible is the Conscious Intelligence to whom alone of right belongs that ineffable nameGOD.

"The pier-head at our landing was filled with human beings in strange costume, from the grey surtout and belt of the gendarmes to the broad twilled and curiously plaited caps of the masculine women; which latter beings, by the way, are the licensed porters of baggage to the custom-house.

As little is there an inherent necessity that any human being should be a selfish egotist, devoid of every feeling or care but those which centre in his own miserable individuality.

If anywhere truly exemplified in plants, it is only in the lowest and simplest, where the being is a structural unit, a single cell, memberless and organless, though organic,the same thing as those cells of which all the more complex plants are built up, and with which every plant and (structurally) every animal began its development.

He believed in the One, which is God; but this all-pervading, unmoved, undivided being was not a personal God, nor a moral governor, but deity pervading all space.

Every being is a definite, eternal, and living thought of God; thinking beings with their states and activities alone exist; all that is real is spiritual, personal.

This very interesting Supreme Being, in a middle barbaric race, is the Polynesian Taa-roa, as described by Ellis in that fascinating book 'Polynesian Researches.'

The one human being whom Quasimodo loved was this priest, Claude Frollo, Archbishop of Paris.

The outer husk being toughest, will be the least affected, the nitrogenous or glutenous portion will be much finer, while the brittle starch will be reduced to powder.

For in a gregarious creature, like man, fellow beings are the most powerful determinants of negative and positive vegetative pressures.

111 Metaphors for  beings