conatus
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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 Emanuel Swedenborg
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 John Ager
And since good and evil are opposites, there is an intermediate, and in it an equilibrium, in which evil acts against good; but as it does not prevail, it stops in a conatus.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
The image of the Infinite in these forms is plain from their conatus and power to fill the spaces of the whole world, and even of many worlds, to infinity.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
Dialectic developments of the notion of self-preservation, of the conatus essendi, often ignore all the important facts of the actual process.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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