"Affectional" Quotes from Famous Books
... again. "I can't see as Coonrod is much comfort, either. Why ain't he here with his sisters? What does all that work of his on the East Side amount to? It seems as if he done it to cross me, as much as anything." Dryfoos complained to his wife on the basis of mere affectional habit, which in married life often survives the sense of intellectual equality. He did not expect her to reason with him, but there was help in her listening, and though she could only soothe his fretfulness with soft answers which were often wide of the purpose, he ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... unobtainable by any modes of relativity or by any outward signs of enlightenment. All events in the phenomenal world are reflected in enlightenment, so that they neither pass out of it, nor enter into it, and they neither disappear nor are destroyed." It is for ever cut off from the hindrances both affectional (kles'avara@na) and intellectual (jneyavara@na), as well as from the mind (i.e. alayavijnana) which implicates itself with birth and death, since it is in its true nature clean, pure, eternal, calm, and ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta
... through every department of the affectional nature. It exists not only among men and women recognized as lovers, married or otherwise, but parents are ghouls to their children, and friends devour each other without stint. Attraction is that law which draws together two opposite elements or forces, positive and negative, ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul • Anna Bishop Scofield
... concealment and sent out by trusty hands, in cantos, that autobiography in which she appealed to posterity, and by which posterity has been convinced. She traced her career from earliest childhood down to the very brink of the grave into which she was looking. Her intellectual, affectional and mental history are all there written with a hand as steady and a mind as serene as though she were at home, with her baby sleeping in its cradle by her side. Here are found history, philosophy, political science, poetry, and ethics as they were received and given ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller
... only say that any experiment which deals with the affectional and emotional part of one's nature must be painful in the extreme. There is, indeed, only one motive which would induce one to undergo the trials, sufferings, sacrifices, and ordeals which it involves—and that is one in ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Fashionable Philosophy - and Other Sketches • Laurence Oliphant |