That silent attitude had been a sort of sacrament to her, confirming the state of yearning passivity on which she had newly entered.
This passivity is probably explained by her reluctance to take any step not absolutely forced upon her, that should render more difficult an eventual reconciliation.
Austro-Marxism is a learned and boastful theory of passivity and capitulation.
Under the passivity which was his by nature and practice, he had learned to think very quickly.
He waited; passivity was one of his strong points.
The characteristic of passivity on which certain mystics would insist is subsidiary--even if it is to be allowed at all.
And in this instance, criticism is all the more necessary because the doctrine of pure passivity is largely a corollary of belief in an unconditioned Absolute.
Her eyes were closed and the eyebrows drawn up a little in a faint, fixed frown; but the childlike line of her mouth had all the sad passivity of death.
He had only returned from the great passivity of the Orient a few weeks ago, and its example seemed to denote drifting as the supreme wisdom.
Passivity is diminished activity, negation of the totality of reality.
Whoever deprives the monad of activity falls into the error of Spinoza; whoever takes away its passivity or matter falls into the opposite error, for he deifies individual beings.
The materia prima (the principle of passivity in the monad) is the ground, the materia secunda (the phenomenon of corporeal mass) the result of the indistinctness of the representations.
Sensation and thought are not different in kind, and if the former is called a passive state, still passivity is nothing other than diminished activity.
Self-activity can not arise out of absolute passivityand eternal rest.
Inertness in matter is not a force, but the opposite of a force--a passivity which requires a force in order to change.
Inertness and exertion, passivity and activity, are contradictory attributes, and can not be affirmed of the same subject.
Passivity has been so long enthroned that of the Chinese it may be truly said that they are not so much too proud to fight as too indifferent,--which is not a fruitful state of affairs.
She had to tell Jackson about it all, but he took it with that indifference to the things of this world which the approach of death sometimes brings, and in the light of his passivity it no longer seemed to her so very bad.
Why speak at all of good works and virtue, when Luther’s doctrine of the passivity and unfreedom of the will denies the existence of all liberty as regards either virtue or sin?
Unfortunately such thoughts too often brought him back to his own pet views of man’s passivity and absence of free will and the all-effecting power of God.
It thus is clear that merely stating that matter is passivity in the monad is not the ultimate way of stating its nature.
We have previously considered the element of passivity or receptivity as relating only to the monad which manifests it.
This relative passivity or unreality constitutes the material and hence the sensuous world.
God alone is purus actus, absolute energy, untouched by passivityor receptivity.
In this passivity consists its finitude, so that Leibniz says that not even God himself could deprive monads of it, for this would be to make them equal to himself.
For passivity means in reality nothing but confused representations,--representations, that is, whose significance is not perceived.
At present we need only notice that the body is simply the part of matter or of passivity which limits the complete activity of any monad.
Activity and passivity are always reciprocal in created things, because a portion of the reasons which serve to explain what goes on is in one substance, and another portion in the other.
It is owing to the passivity of the monad that it does not adequately reflect (that it is not transparent to, so to speak) the activities of other monads.
Pure passivity of any kind is a myth, a scholastic fiction.
The passivity of the monad is therefore at once the logical basis and the possibility of the impenetrability of matter.
This passivity of the female element is found again in the very figuration of animality, formed by the egg and the spermatozoide.
A moment of emotion, that was passivity itself, obsessed her.
Her almost childish passivity was like a slow and heavy poison in his blood.
Man is the active principle, woman more passive, butpassivity must win if it remains obdurate.
She became more and more silent, until this silence of hers was like a pool of water without a ripple, yet its passivity had a positive effect upon Canterton’s consciousness.
For further examination of this question of the supposed passivity of the woman in courtship, see The Truth about Woman, pp.
She writes finely and truly on the absurd and indecent cruelty of penalising divorce; on the cherished superstition of feminine passivity in love, and the origin of the chastity taboo on women with its waste of life and love.
I really cannot credit such continued sexual subjection on the part of the group-daughters, an opinion which arises, I am certain, from the curious misconception of the passivity of the human female in love.
They show the error of the long-held belief in the passivity of the female as a natural law of the sex.
He alone of the Commune has become Minister, and there is no one but him to shelter the violations of the Commune under the protection or under the passivity of the central authority.
Through this departure of the worthy, and this passivity of the flock, Paris belongs to the fanatics among the population.
Now and then he put her to the test by words explicitly directed at her, and she replied with the dreamy passivity which seemed her normal mood, and in which he could fancy himself half forgotten, or remembered with an effort.
Into her silence and passivity he read the reflection of his own adoring love and thought it hers.
And again, as long before, he read into her passivity his own passion, and was deeply content.
From this statement it would appear to follow that between matter and form, between passivity and activity, there must be a middle state, and that beauty plants us in this state.
But the exclusion of freedom is physical necessity; the exclusion of passivity is moral necessity.
And to paint true to life the picture of Dutch East Indian passivity (activity only in vandalism!
Work brings about a deliverance from the passivity of the subject; it organises itself into independent complexes, which develop into a state entirely foreign to our nature.
It willingly flees to the passivity of the subject, where sooner or later it expires in complete destitution.
She sank into resigned passivity at last, and continued to visit Boldini's house daily, learning ultimately to accept, as a matter of professional course, the repulsive flattery of refined vice.
The nation had passed from action to talk, and from talk to passivity, and from passivity to resignation.
