Fairy tales offer to the little child an opportunity for the exercise of that self-active inner impulse which seeks expression in two kinds of play, the symbolic activity of free play and the concrete presentation of types. ❋ Laura F. Kready (N/A)
My sole purpose is to make the reader self-active, observative, free from hide-bound prejudice, and reborn as a participant in the wonderful experiences of life which fill the universe. ❋ Royal Dixon (1923)
Each monad being an independent self-active, source of action, neither dependent on other monads nor influenced by them, it can continue acting without interference forever. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It is a simple, spiritual substance of a self-active nature. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Once knowledge is regarded as a synthetic act of a self-active subject, the gap artificially created between subject and object, reality and appearance, closes of itself. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
No material being can be self-active, and I perceive that I am so. ❋ Unknown (1909)
It only exists -- and can only exist -- in these its single self-active representations. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)
Nature is a collective being made up of component beings -- self-active electrons, self-active atoms, self-active suns and planets, self-active cells, plants, animals, men, and groups and nations of men -- as ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)
The difference between the two is the difference of life and death, or that that is self-active, and that that is not self-active. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Taught and compelled to obey, he could but walk in the marked-out path of another's will, and, hence, all independence and self-active power were denied him. ❋ Wesley John (1897)
If it is self-active, needing no artificial stimulus, let it alone. ❋ Charles Alexander McMurry (1893)
If, however, the former seeks experience with a pure and truthful spirit, and the latter seeks law with self-active and free power of thought, then the two cannot fail to meet each other half way. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
It no longer aims to make artisans; but its manipulations are meant to be developmental, to teach both sexes not only to be useful but self-active and self-respecting, and to revere exactness as a form of truthfulness. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)
They may just as truly and properly be born saints — it requires the self-active power to be just as far developed to commit sin, as it does to choose obedience. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
While in monotheism it holds good, that as truly as God is almighty so truly are men unfree, in Pantheism it holds good that as certainly as God is - self-active so truly are men also so, in whom He is so. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
In religion, however, his relation is rather of a receptive character, — he permits the divine to rule in him; in morality he is more self-active, he reflects forth the God-pleasing from within himself. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
Hence reason is essentially knowing, and, in so far as it is self-active, willing. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
That they must now become self-active agents for the spread of the kingdom of God, but that they could only become such by continued communion and fellowship with him. ❋ 1789-1850 (1870)
All becoming, therefore, necessarily supposes that which has not become, that which is eternally self-active as the principle and cause of all motion. ❋ Unknown (1852)
Aristotle (rather unwillingly, we grant, but his testimony is all the more valuable on that account) that, in his time, the opinion that the soul is a principle, ἀεικίνητον -- ever moving, or essentially self-active, was currently ascribed to Thales. ❋ Unknown (1852)
