Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

The cyclist, by contrast, blond and blue-eyed, is simply unreflective, unproblematic Life, `` blithe and carefree ''.

he is simply thrown out of the shop by the porter.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

But The Holy Sinner is not simply a retelling of old stories for an old man's entertainment.

His birth, education, and fortune, he says, have all been ridiculed simply because he has spoken with the freedom of an Englishman, and he assures the reader that `` whoever talks with me, is speaking to a Gentleman born ''.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

They point out simply that `` it is the law of the land ''.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

`` I'd simply like to know if it is as good as you kind people seem to think '', he said.

The fact is simply that state-owned vehicles have remained in practically the same proportion as employees to use them.

In many communities there is simply no financial problem ; ;

For most small children, learning a forward roll is simply a matter of copying another child who can.

Harmony with the Universe, or the source thereof ( Tao ), is the intended result of many Taoist rules and practices.

This idea is developed further in the Great Learning, and is tightly linked with the Taoist concept of wu wei (): the less the king does, the more gets done.

This is illustrated by the Discordian Hodge Podge ( also Sacred Chao ), a symbol that is similar in design to the Taoist yin yang.

The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe, a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century AD: " Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey ; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.

It is written with the kanji "", Sino-Japanese reading shin or jin ; in Chinese, the character is used to refer to various nature spirits of traditional Chinese religion, but not to the Taoist deities or the Supreme Being.

This lampstand is a requirement for all Taoist temples, never to be extinguished.

In the Taoist religious or philosophical tradition, the Tao is in some ways equivalent to a deity or the logos.

The Taoist priest is called a Daoshi ( 道士 " master of the Dao " p. 488 ).

There is today a balance between outside influences of Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, Abrahamic, Hindu and secular beliefs.

The Southern Temple has been a popular subject of wuxia fiction, first appearing in the 1893 novel Shengchao Ding Sheng Wannian Qing, where it is attacked by the Qianlong Emperor with the help of the White Eyebrow Taoist.

This is when a Taoist with the pen name " Purple Coagulation Man of the Way " wrote the Sinews Changing Classic in 1624, but claimed to have discovered it.

A related view, which draws on the Taoist concept of yin-yang, allows that evil and good are metaphysically real, but maintains that they are complementary opposites, where the existence of each is dependant on the existence of the other.

It is unlikely that Zhuangzi was familiar with the text of the Daodejing, and Zhuangzi would not have identified himself as a Taoist as this classification did not arise until well after his death.

It is, amongst others, contested by hermeneutic ( interpretive ) difficulties in the categorization of the different Taoist schools, sects and movements.

In ancient Taoist texts, wu-wei is associated with water through its yielding nature.

Taoist cosmology is based on the beliefs of the School of Naturalists.

Probably the most characteristic among these methods is Taoist alchemy.

The Tao Te Ching or Daodejing, also often called Laozi, is widely regarded to be the most influential Taoist text.

The Daozang (, Treasury of Tao ) is also referred to as the Taoist canon.

One is likely to see this symbol as decorations on Taoist organization flags and logos, temple floors, or stitched into clerical robes.

Important in this respect is the Taoist concept of De ( 德 ; virtue ).