Best perfection & instinct Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”

Men Should Reason Animal Existence Produce Perfection Instinct Others Happiness

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“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

“When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.”

Desire Perfection Instinct Vicious

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.”

Men Looks Kind Persons Reason Found Strong Understanding Interest Duty Mets Perfection Instinct Guides Welfare Remove Cunning Brutes Discretion Good Understanding

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.”

Two Reason Character Interesting Four Perfection Instinct Legs Pairs Meanness Interesting Characters

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“I think I sing with more emotion but with less technical perfection. I prefer to sing with my natural voice and use my instinct - it's easier for me to give emotion.”

Thinking Giving Natural Emotion Perfection Instinct

Author:Amaury Vassili

“My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.”

Found Chance Clear Perfection Regard Moved Intention Instinct Intuition Cells Mathematical Composition Equations Precision Inevitability Ravens Mathematical Equations

Author:Maurice Ravel

“The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.”

Want Fighting Quality Perfection Instinct Hardest

Author:Gordon Willis

“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.”

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