Sentence examples for primal cause from inspiring English sources

THE message of Dionysian drama, Nietzsche wrote in "The Birth of Tragedy," is that "we are to regard the state of individuation as the origin and primal cause of all suffering, as something objectionable in itself".

Early on in the Fons Vitae, we learn that the Divine Will is one of three central concepts that the human mind must set out to grasp (the workings of matter and form, and the reality of a divine Essence as primal cause are the other two central concepts).

However, after years of intensive research, the primal cause of CGI hypermethylation remains to be defined.

Retinal blood vessels lack functional sympathetic innervations (Riva et al. 1986); therefore, autonomic imbalance is not likely to be the primal cause of retinal arteriolar vasoconstriction.

But the importance of the color red has a more primal, universal cause.

2. But to halt at these nearest determinants, not to be willing to penetrate deeper, indicates a sluggish mind, a dullness to all that calls us towards the primal and transcendent causes.

True, I had been told to keep my arms together until I landed on the mat two floors below, but a primal survival instinct caused me to put out my hands at the bottom to stop myself from crashing to the floor.

Image courtesy of The New Museum, © Benoit Pailley True, I had been told to keep my arms together until I landed on the mat two floors below, but a primal survival instinct caused me to put out my hands at the bottom to stop myself from crashing to the floor.

Never mind that, miraculously, nobody died in either case; the profession's few remaining dangers are so spectacular — and the fears they cause so primal — that, to the casual observer, it is still the province of daredevils and lunatics.

There are other reasons, too — comfort in your old age, propagation of your gene pool, a foolproof excuse for watching old episodes of "Scooby Doo" — but a delicious one is how a kid puts you back on a schedule so familiar that it feels primal, and gives you cause to celebrate when it's disrupted in a weather-related way.

One such hurdle is to ensure that these cells do not revert back in the body to the primal state that could then cause cancer.