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