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“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

“When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.”

Left Goal Brain Steps Creative Taken Majors Essence Defined Programming Left Brain

Book:Over the Top

Source: Over the Top

“The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to not know what you're doing. So I think the screenplay is a great tool to get everybody on the same page.”

Thinking Knows Steps Pages Tools Essence Screenplays Meter

Author:Robert Schwentke

“It was a step forward to charge Pinochet with terrorism, and to acknowledge that the essence of the crime is the use of political violence to induce great fear in society and against those who are innocent, and not just such violence that is directed against the state by opposition groups.”

States Use Political Steps Violence Groups Crime Essence Terrorism Innocent Acknowledge Opposition Steps Forward Political Violence Pinochet

Author:Richard A. Falk

“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise”

“The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.”

Ifs Mother Steps Modern Essence Regard Cosmic Propositions Pantheism Step Mother

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked. 'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth. 'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.”

Knows Way Wells Wanted Courses Father Steps Know How Mines Tough Tradition Essence Useless Customs Superstitions Disgusting Smelly

Book:Faerie Wars

Source: Faerie Wars

“We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.”

Firsts Two Matter Party Steps Ready Mass Capable Essence Currents Socialism Communism Have Faith Peasants

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.”

May Two Philosophy Literature Steps Teach Psychology Type Activity Essence Educational Manifestation Every Step

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.”

Children Turns Father Steps Journey Taste Essence Fruit Planes Fatherhood Father Son Begin Again Great Father Daughter To Father Fatherhood Inspirational Father Child

Author:Angelo Patri