principium

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Thus he who is still involved in the principium individuationis, in egoism, only knows particular things and their relation to his own person, and these constantly become new motives of his volition.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Causa efficiens et finis sibi correspondent invicem, quia efficiens est principium motus, finis autem terminus.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

It is one, not with the unity of an object or of a concept, but as that which lies outside of space and time, beyond the principium individuationis, that is, the possibility of plurality.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas

He sees not the thing-in-itself but the phenomenon in time and space, the principium individuationis, and in the other forms of the principle of sufficient reason.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Tam in ingressu Sacerdotis ad altare, quam ante principium Missae, reverentia Sacerdotis debet esse profunda capitis et corporis, non capitis tantum, inclinatio, juxta rubricam 8.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, January 1865 by Various