In other words, to know a living being or natural system is to get at the very interval of duration, while the knowledge of an artificial or mathematical system applies only to the extremity.
It is true that the comparison would not be worth much, for a living being is observable, whilst the whole of the universe is constructed or reconstructed by thought.
The impetus which causes a living being to grow larger, to develop and to age, is the same that has caused it to pass through the phases of the embryonic life.
Time is assumed to have just as much reality for a living being as for an hour-glass, in which the top part empties while the lower fills, and all goes where it was before when you turn the glass upside down.
And if the earth were a living being, as mythology has feigned, most likely when in repose it would take delight in dreaming of these sudden explosions, whereby it suddenly resumes possession of its innermost nature.
As we are both in and of it, we cannot help treating it as a living being.
But the suggestion must also be a subtle one, for the general appearance of the person, whose every limb has been made rigid as a machine, must continue to give us the impression of a living being.
Not a living being in the cross-roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun.
Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a dead corpse.
As many living beings are seen to grow from the earth, why would it itself not be a living being?
The world is administered like a living being, namely, partly from the outside, and from the resulting members, and partly from within, and from the principle.
Indeed, in the world considered as a living being, the life does not extend to certain limits, beyond which it cannot spread; for it is present everywhere.
Since we consider every star as a living being, why would we not similarly consider the earth, which is a part of the universal living being?
Defn: Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait.
A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
Dei xviii, 41), "was condemned by the Athenians for teaching that the sun was a fiery mass of stone, and neither a god nor even a living being.
In another sense it is proper and belongs to living things; in which sense it signifies the origin of a living being from a conjoined living principle; and this is properly called birth.
For the same essential form makes man an actual being, a body, a living being, an animal, and a man.
For though a thing may fail to be, for example, a man or a living being, yet it cannot fail to be a being.
In vain he strained his eyes: no living being was to be seen either on the terrace, in the little garden, or at the windows of the loggia.
What nature does after a great length of time we do every day by suddenly changing, as regards a living being, the circumstances in which it and all the individuals of its species are placed.
So I wandered about at random, and whenever I saw a living being, I envied its happy state.
Thou settest as a living being in the hidden place.
A hymn of praise to Rā at eventide [when] he setteth as a living being in Baakha.
Thou dost place thyself in the west, and my two hands are [raised] in adoration [of thee] when thou settest as a living being.
I am obliged to behold them because I am a living being having a body, but then I behold them as an unconcerned witness.
In his Physics Zeno adopted the doctrine of Strato, that the world is a living being.
He regarded the entire world as a living being, spontaneously evolving and transforming itself, and agreed with Anaximenes that the soul of man is nothing but air, as is also the soul of the world.
No living being was to be seen; and nothing disturbed the dead stillness of the hour and the place.
And next thou must observe what thy nature requires so far as thou art a living being.
It is supposed that this may be explained by the Stoic doctrine, that the universe is a god or living being (IV.
Observe what thy nature requires, so far as thou art governed by nature only: then do it and accept it, if thy nature, so far as thou art a living being, shall not be made worse by it.
It appeared to him as if the moonlight had been loosed from the moon and now floated about in the room like a living being.
The first time that the slumbering youth saw Gro wandering, it seemed to him as if the moonlight had been loosed from the planet and floated only in his room like a living being.
When however he knew that the maiden near him was a living being, then "his lips sank toward her trembling with desire, unintentionally and yet irrevocably.
The causes of the Elevation and degradation of living being.
Then thinking itself as another or a living being Jiva, and other wise than what it is (i.
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