Sentences with phrase «perfection is beyond reach»

Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic.

We all know — or ought to know — that moral perfection is beyond our reach, yet most of us do not derive from that knowledge the conclusion that it is pointless to aspire to virtue.)

People disagree on good and evil, not mainly out of ignorance nor because of the changefulness of the world, nor because perfection is beyond reach, but primarily because they are self - centered.

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And once human will is accorded primacy in reaching that perfection — once obtension is sufficient to realize the First Good — the responsible self requires no memory at all beyond its recognition of the imperative to seek the content of correct conduct (the Second Good).

Then, obviously, when perfection is reached, there is nothing beyond; all one can hope is to maintain his position at that high level.