Sake Quotes
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
George Bernard Shaw
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare.
Kingsley Amis
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One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
Erwin Rommel
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
Victor Hugo
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
W. H. Auden
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
Aristotle
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I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Bette Davis
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
Pamela A. Matson
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B. F. Skinner