conatus

Example Sentences

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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

And as the human form is made up of all the things there are in man, it follows that love or the will is in a continual conatus and effort to form all these.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

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

In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, 355.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

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 Ager, John