单词 | will to be |
释义 | > as lemmaswill to be will to be n. the drive within a being to promote its own existence; the desire for life; = will to live n. ΚΠ 1901 Philos. Rev. 10 553 The will to be, which underlies all our life, implies the will to be by and of one's self, a desire which is futile in a finite being. 1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 12 And naught but his marooned precarious self For questing consciousness and will-to-be. 1972 D. V. Tansley Radionics iv. 33 The ancient seers of India..observed that the base chakra was responsible for..providing a channel for the will-to-be to express itself. 1992 Early Amer. Lit. 27 215 In her decline into melancholia Eliza practices an almost ascetic refusal of artifice, of the will to be. < as lemmas |
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