"A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection."

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Source : Ralph Barton Perry (1964). “Puritanism and Democracy”

Ralph Barton Perry

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“I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.”
“We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.”
“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?”

Source : "The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.
“Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.”
“When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.”
“Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.”
“Fear may fill our world, but it doesnâ€™t have to fill our hearts.”
“I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”

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