Sentence examples for eternal motion from inspiring English sources

Anaximander postulated eternal motion, along with the apeiron, as the originating cause of the world.

All is quiet, bar the eternal motion of the dark, dark water, the world beneath it a closely guarded secret.

That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.

According to one such argument, we assume that the heavenly bodies are engaged in eternal motion.

Ammonius also argued that "if, according to Aristotle, the power of any finite body is itself finite, clearly whether it be a power of moving or a power that produces being, then, just as it gets its eternal motion from the unmoved cause, so it must receive its eternal being as a body from the non-bodily cause" (trs. of this and other relevant texts in Sorabji 2005, vol. 2, sect. 8(c)1).

The book of poetry, now more than 2000 years old, is a call to radical ideas, such as that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.

It was followed by Eternal Echoes (2001).

Reason amounts to eternal Cartesianism.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 34.

It seemed dramatic, and half-touched her, this eternal telegram.

In Mühlhausen he organized a group called the Eternal Covenant of God.