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“The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.”

Art Successful Masters Keys Depends Tools Perfection Machines Construction Employed Machinery

Book:Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings

Source: Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings

“We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.”

Ifs Giving Sex Depends Perfection Asking Excuse Equality Foolish Receiving Superiority

Book:Sesame and Lilies

Source: Sesame and Lilies

“Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.”

Said Real Soul Culture Moral Opinion Progress Depends Capable Intellectual Perfection Regard Depth Notion Philosopher Faculty Instruction Spontaneous Pupils Transmit

Author:Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

“How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!”

Should Ignorance Depends Perfection Admiration

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”

Mind Doe States Inspiration Individual Memories Magic Personality Depends Development Degrees Perfection Insight Intuition Determined Maturity Purity Mysticism Individual Personality

Author:Franz Bardon

“An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.”

Should Life Is Individual Forget Quality Depends Ideals Perfection Should Have Aim Wide Generous Disinterested Aimless Life

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”

Ifs Men Life Real Wisdom Lasts Imagination Opinion Strange Depends Perfection Logic Errors Worldly Applause Fallacy Weird Life

Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain

“It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.”

Science Process Imagine Conditions Depends Evolution Perfection Constant Errors Tendencies Imagine That Organisms Adaptation Modification Remodeling

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics