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  • Andre Karwath Common Daisy: The low-growing Bellis perennis, with small flowers, is mostly found on lawns in northern climates.

    Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds Richard Mabey 2011

  • It's a philosophia perennis in anti-religious guise, and that's an a priori requirement for those who want to explain religion, and thereby explain it away – and another reason to be suspicious of the notion.

    A dangerous seduction 2010

  • Iqbal adalah wakil dari ‘oriental perennis’ yang sesungguhnya.

    Jati Diri: dari Iqbal, Rumi, Sampai Newton – Netsains.Com 2009

  • There he quoted the introduction to the Decree of introducing theses 24 theses in Denzinger-Schonmetzer itself: The philosophia perennis is indeed taught by the Church as the essential basis of Catholic theology.

    The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start 2009

  • If the central elements of various religions have so much in common, if they form what Schumacher calls the philosophia perennis, why did he feel obliged to settle for a single, necessarily limited institutional expression of it?

    Small is Beautiful, and So Is Rome 2008

  • But as such, it runs the risk of seeming obscurantist to some who may not be as informed about the theological work of the last century or so actually, the philosophia perennis goes back thousands of years, never mind Tillich or Cuppitt :.

    Does Being Exist? James F. McGrath 2008

  • One of the favorite pots planted with lithodora, wallflower, erysimum cheiri, and bellis perennis.

    Blue In The Garden-Part One « Fairegarden 2007

  • Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, &c. cum venit ille dies, &c. parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis astra ferar, nomenque erit indelebile nostrum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For all such morality is, ultimately, a matter of opinion; and opinions in turn are affected more by culture and its evolution than by any philosophia perennis or religious authority.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Mike L 2005

  • For all such morality is, ultimately, a matter of opinion; and opinions in turn are affected more by culture and its evolution than by any philosophia perennis or religious authority.

    Is abstinence immoral? Mike L 2005

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