An idea from The Symposium

Then Diotima gives Socrates the higher steps. You begin by loving 1 beautiful body. Then you see the same beauty in every body, and loving just 1 starts to seem small. From bodies you move to minds, then to laws and customs, then to kinds of knowledge.

From The Symposium by Plato

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