Michelangelo Quotes
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
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In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
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I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.
