Literary notes about dynamism (AI summary)
The word "dynamism" in literature conveys a wide range of meanings, from the inherent force or energy that drives natural phenomena to the passionate vigor of human spirit and creativity. Authors often invoke this term to illustrate a fundamental quality of movement or change, whether referring to the ceaseless force operating in the universe that gives rise to existence itself [1, 2, 3] or to the spirited, sometimes even uncontrollable, energy within individuals and groups [4, 5]. At times, dynamism is also deployed as a counterpoint to static or mechanistic models, serving as a metaphor for the unpredictable interplay between cause and effect, beauty and function [6, 7, 8]. This versatile use underscores its role as a lens through which authors examine both the tangible phenomena of the physical world and the abstract forces of thought and emotion [9, 10, 11].
- In other words, that which we call "pure extensity" is by virtue of its dynamism the cause of its own existence.
— from The Mystery of Space A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne - At the basis of all is force, dynamism, and universal mind, or spirit.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion - I will allow myself to repeat here what I have said a hundred times elsewhere: The universe is a dynamism .
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion - She was possessed by an uncontrollable dynamism.
— from A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee - “Even though we are cultural introverts there is plenty of dynamism within our society.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - The main reason is connected to the dynamism associated with the European spirit, which cannot accept an invariant model (religion).
— from The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa - By thus reversing the natural order, effects are considered before causes; and only by the dynamism of causes can we be made to feel beauty.
— from Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright - Not atomism, but dynamism, is the truth.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong - The hidden dynamism of self-contradiction is what incessantly produces the static appearance by which your sense is fooled.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - Behind the emotional power of nature there is a great abstract force; and the effect of dynamism can be got only when this force is expressed.
— from Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright - The mystery must remain in its dark secrecy, and its dark, powerful dynamism.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
