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Yea, more than this, we cannot shrink from the consequences of our affirmation, the mind in man is not conceivably other than the Mind which is self-subsistent and infinite.

From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by Sullivan, W. R. Washington

Hence for Plato the ideas are not the attributes of a mind, but that self-subsistent truth to which, in its moments of insight, a mind may have access.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

The community of which the Brownings, man and wife, became members at their marriage was a wholly self-subsistent one.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various

They could be self-subsistent economically, and invulnerable to outside attack, independent of commerce, and so strong as to be indifferent to progress.

From The Problem of China by Russell, Bertrand

The self-subsistent life dare not feed on the mere analysis of consciousness or on the material which it already possesses.

From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)