But progress, not quietism, is the principle which governs humanity and it is favoured by events of most different nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Staying quiet in the face of political strife is the reigning philosophy in Najaf and is known as quietism, or taquia, in Arabic. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
There is something to be said for the ' quietism ' of the Buddhist approach to the question of the Divine. From Wordnik.com. [Science, Idolatry, and Anthropomorphism] Reference
This is neither quietism nor epistemic humility on Reid's part. From Wordnik.com. [Reid on Memory and Personal Identity] Reference
And this system of female non-education or quietism still prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions] Reference
It is the way of quietism, of willed obscurity, of inner emigration. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Bad Year] Reference
Without wasting too much time here, I stand by my quietism critique. From Wordnik.com. [St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, MA] Reference
The Lathe of Heaven is a Taoist parable about the virtue of quietism. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?] Reference
The doctrine of quietism and indifference to joy has no place in the ethic of. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 39] Reference
That is the distinction I meant to draw between quietism not passivity and activism. From Wordnik.com. [Google Fight! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But that is quietism, or anti-any kind of-activism; not anti-other-philosophies per se. From Wordnik.com. [Google Fight! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
On the other hand, political action was a blind-alley leading to reformism and quietism. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XIV] Reference
I shall be charged with mysticism, Behmenism, quietism, &c., but THAT shall not alarm me. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
One is that any pleasure in the actual process of life encourages a sort of political quietism. From Wordnik.com. [george orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
But theory is never innocent, and the New Criticism slotted in nicely with the quietism of the age. From Wordnik.com. [Saying Something] Reference
To the extent that this knowledge leads to quietism, I demonstrate my belief in my deep first principles. From Wordnik.com. [Us Jews are sooooo cool] Reference
Sectarian quietism and withdrawal were also rejected in favor of the revolutionary activism of a mass movement. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Russia and — together with ideas of mysticism, quietism, and romanticism — influenced Tsar Alexander I; the. From Wordnik.com. [CONSERVATISM] Reference
The real pessimism is quietism - not doing anything because nothing can be changed, argues Bauman: Why do I write books?. From Wordnik.com. [Zygmunt Bauman and 'The poor will always be with us'] Reference
The real pessimism is quietism – not doing anything because nothing can be changed, argues Bauman: Why do I write books?. From Wordnik.com. [Zygmunt Bauman and ‘The poor will always be with us’ « Gerry Canavan] Reference
But if he would not so participate, his leftist reincarnation comes to no more than a cover for an all-too-familiar quietism. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on the Left] Reference
It just seems to me that from within an anarchist framework the only two political solutions are total revolution or quietism. From Wordnik.com. [Metropolitan secession] Reference
Discouraging such an approach to art and literature was what New Criticism, in all of its quietism, was itself finally all about. From Wordnik.com. [Saying Something] Reference
The Taoist theory of prolonging life by quietism and dispassionateness, by regulating one's breath, and using medicines is untenable. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
Apparently identifying the concept of an inevi - table and irresistible fate with Buddhism, he rejected its implied quietism and pessimism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
With your quietism, one could live happily for a hundred years at least. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Slide 129: quietism 1798 1789 1794 1789 Dr. Price 1791 20 1790 40 Mantoux. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"Certainly that isn't much like quietism," murmured Alexandra, half to herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
He resisted as a temptation the philosophic quietism which had been his strength and his pride. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
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