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“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.”

Men Looks Doe Made Real Self Purpose Social Existence Needed Promise Perfection Paid Salvation Deny Contracts Procedures Bourgeois Selected Basements Real Self Social Contract

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.”

Want Persons Imagination Pleasure Tree Building Circumstances Promise Taste Equal Perfection Plant Suits Variety Lasting Decay Annuals

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.”

Want Mean Quality Promise Perfection Absolutes Customers

Author:Seth Godin

“Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.”

Matter Feelings Records Risk Security Promise Musician Perfection Function Studios Equipment Subjective Machinery Blanket Unwilling

Author:Jon Landau

“There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.”

Stills Perfect Promise Perfection

Book:The Hours: A Novel

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.”

“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”

Ifs Men Humans Reason Found Influence Sorrow Promise Truth Is Perfection Irresistible Discouragement Great Expectations Unqualified Restraining

Book:Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism

Source: Great Expectations: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism

“The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.”

Source: Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

“Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.”

Ifs Kind Life Is Certain Choices Dark Love Is Possibility Taught Sweet Promise Kissing Perfection Bitter Chocolate Sugar

Book:Perfect

Source: Perfect

“Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”

Promise Perfection Reassurance

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.”

Said Impossible Promise Creatures Perfection Mirrors Command Gas Immortal Goddess Radiant Dazzling Idealistic

Author:C. S. Lewis

“On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament) is rooted not in their moral perfection but in their uncompromising dedication to the cause of Yahweh and their rugged trust in the promises of God rather than lapsing into the idolatry of many of their contemporaries.”

Causes Moral Hero Promise Perfection Dedication Rooted Testament New Testament Moses Abraham Idolatry Old Testament Rugged Uncompromising Inspection Yahweh Moral Perfection

Book:Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

Source: Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

“It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.”

Purpose Promise Perfection

Book:Systematic Theology

Source: Systematic Theology