“The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.” DifferentLightConditionsBuddhismPerfectionEndlessPlanesDiscussionBordersDimensionsShore Author:Frederick Lenz
“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.” MindSpiritCultureStudyConditionsBecomingCircumstancesPerfectionInwardBecoming Something Author:Matthew Arnold
“Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.” RealitySeemsCertainValuesFeltReligiousConditionsStageDivineLimitsPerfectionBoundsAcceptedFestivalsNoveltyConvenienceEccentricPredecessorsProfaneMelodramaIrresponsibility Author:Laura Riding
“It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.” IfsWritingMayIdeasStatesFailingConditionsExampleObjectsDutyPerfectionFaultsInnocenceCautionAtonementHinderEndeavourVigilanceContagionAdmonition Author:Samuel Johnson
“My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found in human nature. I was attempting in my successive books to show the inevitable handicap of the human condition.” WayHumansBookShowsFoundConditionsHuman NatureDespairPerfectionAbsolutesInevitablePessimismHuman ConditionAttemptingHandicaps Author:Stanislaw Lem
“I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.” BelieveChristVisionConditionsPerfectionSalvationSurpassing Author:Baruch Spinoza
“As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.” ThinkingMindLongTwoUniversePerfectConditionsDivineMaterialsPerfectionParallelsAlignmentParallel Universe Author:Marianne Williamson