conatus
Example Sentences
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This desire is the perpetual conatus of that love, from which flow all its effects.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel
He ignored that inner drive which Spinoza called the conatus; or the seeds of Paracelsus or van Helmont; or the persistence over a time course of any "essence" or "form."
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.
But let application of this be made to living conatus, and to living force, and to living motion.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
