Sentence examples for corporeal things from inspiring English sources

According to the Siddha system, there are five elements that exist in nature: earth, water, fire, air, and ether, all of which form the original basis of all corporeal things.

The "matter" of corporeal things has the power to become a new form at every instant; and the resulting matter form complex is at every instant a new matter ready for, desiring, and moving toward another form.

Much of the sorrow of Michael's passing lies in the fact he wrote and sang so exquisitely about the marrow of life, about the vital, corporeal things: he was the pop star who wrote about lust — in all its extraordinary, variegated, beautiful forms, long before it became fashionable to be risque.

This is the matter common to spiritual and corporeal things.

The third of these spiritual beings is man, who consists of a cross between purely intellectual and purely corporeal things.

Corporeal things will return to their incorporeal causes, the temporal to the eternal, the finite will be absorbed in the infinite.

Yet the empirical case for a worldwide state of war against a corporeal thing called Al Qaeda looks increasingly threadbare.

So every corporeal thing is finite.

Prime matter, which is a necessary constituent of any corporeal thing, is known by God in the same way as individuals are: not in itself, but derivatively in something else (ibidem, fol. 135rb).

In Summa contra Gentiles he wrote that "an incorporeal thing is related to its presence in something by its power, in the same way that a corporeal thing is related to its presence in something by dimensive quantity," and he added that "if there were any body possessed of infinite dimensive quantity, it would have to be everywhere.

Given that the soul is, according to Aristotle's theory, a system of abilities possessed and manifested by animate bodies of suitable structure, it is clear that the soul is, according to Aristotle, not itself a body or a corporeal thing.