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Sake Quotes - Page 6

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.333, Open Road Media

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).

I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.

"The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus". Book by Mary Macgregor, 1900.

A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.193, Parkstone International

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.

Heidi Baker (2013). “Compelled By Love: How to Change the World Through the Simple Power of Love in Action”, p.107, Charisma Media

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami