Best perfection & individual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Islam at the Crossroads

“The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.”

Source: The Forsyte Saga, Complete: England Literature

“Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.”

Matter Christian Law Spirit Individual Christ Grace Holy Perfection Fruit Code Holy Spirit Holiness Conformity Reproducing

Author:F. F. Bruce

“The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.”

Different Whole Form Individual Type Models Ideals Perfection Species Sculpture Defective Assembling

Book:The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students

Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students

“Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.”

Kind May Individual Energy Perfect Perfection Mere Granted Obedience Fairness Restraint License Exhibits Subjugation

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.”

Men Body Individual Religious Animal Moral Creation Higher Intellectual Perfection Intelligent Responsible Senses Superiors Faculty Denied Exhibits Combining Individual Power

Author:George Combe

“In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.”

Individual Subjects Theory Perfection Variety Midst

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“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

“Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.”

Heart Individual Audience Pieces Style Perfection Window Surface Singers Flawless Idiosyncrasies Individual Style

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.”

World Mind Heart Problem Individual Return Perfection World Problems

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'”

Culture Individual Sex Perfect Interesting Careers Expression Perfection Size Defined Mates Vacation Quests Desirable Paramount Handbags Perfect Family Individual Expression

Author:Naomi Wolf

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.”

“Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.”

Ifs World Persons Two Individual Offers Perfection Universal Dawn Vibrations Deep Within Invoke Outer Worlds

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.”

World Individual Tree Sky Fields Thousand Perfection Gold Sight Blue Green Landscape Autumn Shade Orange Highways Vivid Luminous Fiery Blue Sky Hue Scarlet Crisps Sumptuous Green Fields

Author:Bill Bryson

“That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.”

Men Should Matter Facts Song Individual Nature Wind Bird Perfection Infinite Environmental Wave Truthful Imitation Spontaneous Best Work Whispering Roaring Being Truthful Be Spontaneous

Author:Lydia M. Child

“The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.”

Ifs Should Two Would Be Individual Peace Chance Impossible Perfection Essence Opposites Notion Contrary Scare Reconcile Tokens Two Opposites

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.”

Lying Individual Dark Perfection Recess

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over?”

“The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.”

Inspiration Life Is Purpose Humanity Individual Effort Perfection Guidance Purpose Of Life True Purpose Individual Effort

Author:David O. McKay

“Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically”

“Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see.”

Long Has Beens Self Would Be Able Individual Students Illusion Perfection Communicate Subjective Systematic Pretension Completeness Long Road

Book:The Sociology of Georg Simmel

Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel

“The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.”

Source: Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts

“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”

“When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.”

Source: Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing

“When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.”

Individual Pay Attention Successful Perfection Details Champion Minors Successful Individuals

Author:John Wooden

“Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.”

Ifs Would Be Form Individual Loss Existence Consciousness Clear Gains Perfection Species Individuality Careful Limitation Preservation

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)

“A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.”

Men May Mean Said Ideas Real States Whole Able Values Individual Capable Perfection Bases Observation Abstract Mature Correspondence Real Value

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

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