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“The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.”

Men World Needs Feelings Dream Spiritual Wonder Conditions Essence Notion Dawn Phenomenon Superstitions Savages Unreal Hereditary Saturated Thoroughness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”

Knows Two Earth Lasts Form Order Love Is Steps Practice Fairs Essence Absolutes Notion Sake Essence Of Beauty Symposium

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.”

Ideas Quality Modern Essence Notion Wit Brevity Tedium

Book:There's a Country in My Cellar

Source: There's a Country in My Cellar

“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”

“I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence. I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller. Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self. The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.”

Thinking Believe Doe Said Self Facts Body Individual I Believe Divine Particular Personality Essence Sacred Notion Ancient Core God Image Infidel Individual Personality

Author:Todd Rundgren

“It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.”

Way Firsts Important Events Truth Is Concepts Essence Important Things Notion Being True Academic

Author:Mike Leigh

“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.”

Ifs Needs Years Facts Would Be Purpose Universe Common Secret Objects Years Ago Essence Notion Appearance Common Sense Layers

Author:Michio Kaku

“The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.”

Reason Hands Party Messages Dignity Essence Abuse Democratic Democrat Notion Treated Entitled Democratic Party Abuse Of Power Abhorrence

Author:Joe Biden

“In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.”

Character Essence Notion Traditional

Author:Steve Erickson

“It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.”

Wells Long Doe Matter Artist Essence Paint Notion Accepted Painter Subject Matter Being An Artist

Book:Writings on Art

Source: Writings on Art

“Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.”

Today Growing Essence Crisis Series Notion Fragments Urgent Live For Today Confronting

Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.”

Trying Dream Seems Given Existence Struggle Impossible Essence Relation Surprise Notion Incredibles Vain Subtle Sensations Absurdity Captured Revolt Epoch Bewilderment Heart Of Darkness

Author:Joseph Conrad

“I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Happiness Spiritual Joy Building Serious Laughter Essence Notion Corruption Lifestyle Advertising Spiritual Peace Acquiring Things

Author:Edward Norton

“The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.”

Ifs Should Two Would Be Individual Peace Chance Impossible Perfection Essence Opposites Notion Contrary Scare Reconcile Tokens Two Opposites

Author:Nachman of Breslov