Example Sentences

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I think anyone's religion, to be real and workable, has to be self-originating, forever creative.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although the force of example will always exercise great influence upon the formation of character, the self-originating and sustaining force of one's own spirit must be the mainstay.

From Character by Smiles, Samuel

And, so neither things which exist or come into being necessarily, nor things in the way of nature, come under the province of Art, because these are self-originating.

From Ethics by Aristotle

Safety and comfort are good, indeed, for the good; for the brave, the self-originating, the earnest. 

From Health and Education by Kingsley, Charles

And the purpose of all and each of these moralists precludes the theory of free-will—i.e., the theory that our volitions are self-originating and unpredictable.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander