vital force

How To Use vital force In A Sentence

• It has been sad to watch the three of them, once vital forces, ebb slowly away before our eyes.
• Jupiter, ruling the sanguine humour from its seat in the liver, is responsible for maintaining the even temper of the humours, thereby facilitating the harmonious flow of Vital Force.
• It urges the necessity for linking up with vital forces, but forgets that the real vital force of the German people has hitherto only pullulated under its skull. Selected Essays
• Indeed, most cultures have believed in the existence of a vital force: the Chinese call it chi; the Hindus know it as prana; the ancient Greeks used to call it pneuma or psyche, while the Romans talked about three kinds of spirits.
• But to the extent that virility equals violence it is not a vital force but only a cover for the real frigidity.
• If a philosophy lacks this living fundamentwhich is usually a sign that the ideal principle too was originally only feebly at work in itit loses itself in the kind of system whose attenuated concepts of aseity, modifications, etc., stand in sharpest contrast to the vital force and fullness of reality. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
• His vital force was not consumed by half a hundred campaigns; he gave himself also, with never aging enthusiasm, to science, law, literature, and theology; he fretted at leaving any part of the earth, or any section of knowledge, unmastered or unexplored. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
• He studied the Chinese people, celebrated for their longevity, and he sought for the best methods of maintaining what he called the equilibrium of vital forces. Honore de Balzac
• The Paracelsians maintained that life is a perpetual germinative process, controlled by the _archaeus_ or vital force, which was supposed to preside over all organic phenomena. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery