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“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.”

Humans Ideas Action Interest Attitude Taken Mere Theoretical

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.”

Ifs Process Party Taken Mere Goods Commodity Distribution Better Off

Book:Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

Source: Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

“In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.”

People Kind Real Facts Feelings Sin Taken Mere Charity Tolerance Spite Sinner Superiority Indulgence Parody Presumption Merriment Deep Feeling

Book:Christian Reflections

Source: Christian Reflections

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.”

Men May Mean Doe Character Would Be Evil Taken Goodness Negative Sight Mere Speed Absence Lions Display Blindness Goats Possessing Negation

Book:Philosophical Texts

Source: Philosophical Texts

“The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.”

Ifs Spirit Work Path Taken Nice Calling Travel Enlightenment Mere Humble Cards Impress Nice To Meet You

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.”

Made Ideas Care Emotion Behinds Taken Habit Mere Made It Suspicious

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.”

Men Humans Feelings Humanity Behinds Existence Taken Optimism Aim Raises Mere Everyday Optimistic Impulse Existentialism Observers Human Existence Romanticism Stature

Author:Colin Wilson

“Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.”

Mind Mean Long Character Can Do Steps Taken Machines Mere Senses Gathering Power Of The Mind Outgoing

Author:Swami Vivekananda