Beings

Todd: By the way Bradford, the phase "Necessary Beings" is often applied to abstract entities, in fact God is the only proposed necessary being that really fits our normal definition of "being."

Dawkins and ID 2008

By the way Bradford, the phase "Necessary Beings" is often applied to abstract entities, in fact God is the only proposed necessary being that really fits our normal definition of "being."

Dawkins and ID 2008

His interest in fantasy, philosophy, and the art of translation are evident in articles such as “The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights”, while The Book of Imaginary Beings is a thoroughly (and obscurely) researched bestiary of mythical creatures, in the preface of which Borges wrote, “There is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.”

jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Vinnie Balducci, Brooklyn representative for the Snipers of Otherworldly Beings, is making Lil an offer she can’t refuse: find him the perfect woman or she’s going to be swimming with the fishes.

“Just One Bite” by Kimberly Raye Doug Knipe 2008

Beings, which is the real substance of religion, is ra - tional.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

Attributes are never called Beings; nor are Feelings.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

Adoration to a whole Host of created, tho 'Celestial Beings, that is to say, the Sun, Moon, and Stars, according to the antient Custom of the _Arabians_.

Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

If the Intellectual-Principle were envisaged as preceding Being, it would at once become a principle whose expression, its intellectual Act, achieves and engenders the Beings: but, since we are compelled to think of existence as preceding that which knows it, we can but think that the Beings are the actual content of the knowing principle and that the very act, the intellection, is inherent to the Beings, as fire stands equipped from the beginning with fire-act; in this conception, the Beings contain the

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

a Being; God and angels are called Beings; but if we were to say, extension, colour, wisdom, virtue are beings, we should perhaps be suspected of thinking with some of the ancients, that the cardinal virtues are animals; or, at the least, of holding with the Platonic school the doctrine of self-existent Ideas, or with the followers of Epicurus that of

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

The earliest forms of Life, the unicellular "Beings," whether animal or vegetable -- for both divisions, if they can be said to be divided, have the same protoplasmic cell as basis of life -- were, and are still, immortal except for accidents; they are not subject to natural death as we know it; they multiply by fission and not by "budding."

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893