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“A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.”

Men Humans Mean Ends Views Ideals Perfection Aim Instruments Profession Faculty Livelihood Liberal Education

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but does the sound connect internally, do they touch people's hearts, how creative are they.... ?”

People Knows Heart Doe Play Today Sound Creative Perfection Instruments Up And Down

Author:David Finckel

“A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.”

Men Play Science Next Hard Work One Day Musician Perfection Instruments Chemistry Concerts Professors Good Work

Author:Louis Agassiz

“The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.”

Reason Humanity Civilization Weapons Perfection Destruction Instruments Sole Philanthropic

Author:Jules Verne

“I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.”

Giving Ideas Problem Inspiration Seems Perfect Pieces Possibility Expression Musician Perfection Difficulty Originals Instruments Formulas Exotic Original Ideas Coltrane Exotic Places

Author:Thelonious Monk

“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”

“Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.”

Men Spirit Order Natural Animal Conditions Negative Perfection Instruments Moved Symbols Hierarchy Inventor Rotten

Book:Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method

Source: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method

“Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.”

Knows Should Perfect Existence Perfection Instruments Mere Immortality Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz