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“The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.”

Study Failing Illusion Sake Pursuit Prize

Book:Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition

Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition

“The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.”

Shows Might Consciousness Study Complexes Sake Nervous Organs Distribution Nervous System Steering

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for the sake of themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.”

Way Mind Body Study Sea Students Buddhism Keys Offers Sake Mind And Body Renounce

Author:Dogen

“In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.”

People Men Self Order Education Study Self Improvement Sake Improvement Impress Old Days

Book:A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects

Source: A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects

“... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.”

Mean Self Care Humanity Poverty Study Self Love Sake Take Care Ridiculous

Author:Mary Collyer

“There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.”

Kind Views Education Study Activity Intellectual Sake Branches Leisure

Book:Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.”

Men Should Firsts War Government Views Study Masters Exercise Deserve Thirds Slave Sake Empires Despotism Enslavement Be A Slave Second Place Third Place

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.”

People Thinking Cases Study Meditation Subjects Sake Drawing Observation Subservient

Author:Peter Wright