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211 Own Sake quotes by 172 unique authors

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the… — Andre Simon
Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause.… — Sydney J. Harris
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature… — Augustus William Hare
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the… — Walter Pater
But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than… — Alasdair Gray
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to… — Ed Miliband
It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out… — Mary Ellen Chase
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is… — Swami Vivekananda
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not… — George Orwell
We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body… — Karl Marlantes
And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what… — Unknown Author
Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense… — Frederick Buechner
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own… — Ben Shahn
Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight… — Steve Denning
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture… — Aldous Huxley
Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for… — Watchman Nee
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the… — E. M. Forster
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,… — Thomas Merton
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's. — Aristotle
The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde

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