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“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”

World Humans Art Lasts Art Is Perfection Sake Flying Analysis Endeavor Vapor

Book:The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats

“for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!”

Enough Bits Christ Mountain Perfection Blue Sake Chuck

Author:Paul Gauguin

“The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.”

Men Mind Humans Care Highest Perfection Sake Human Life Detached

Book:On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: pts. 1-2. Providence

Source: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: pts. 1-2. Providence

“Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.”

Ifs World Believe Humans Mistake Virtue Atheism Mets Perfection Sake Positive Atheism Seeds Plot Principal Good Friend Truth Love

Book:Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

Source: Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

World Humans Truth Political Virtue Honesty This World Perfection Sake Seeds Plot Principal Truth Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

“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

“Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.”

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge