Sentences with phrase «depend upon the perfection»

A father's acceptance of his children does not depend upon the perfection of their obedience, but only upon their willingness to be filial.

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The particular state in which perfection exists depends, to be sure, like all particular things, upon what else exists, but that there are some such states by definition can not so depend.
It [Perfection] can not depend upon anything else [in particular] for its own existence — not that it could exist solitary, but its existence is entirely neutral as between alternatives of particular existence other than its own.
The individual in a human society in process of collective organization has not the right to remain inactive, that is to say, not to seek to develop himself to his fullest extent: because upon his individual perfection depends the perfection of all his fellows.
It was not that geometry could represent the reality of the sublime, but that it could offer a means of attaining a «plane of attention and awareness» upon which the perception of sublimity depended» (Barbara Haskell, «Agnes Martin: The Awareness of Perfection,» Agnes Martin, exh.
The perfection, the glamour of the mise - en - scène depends upon their recession from the scene — behind screens, windows, hedges, truck cabs and paneled vans.
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