Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.
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Ch. XVMax Beerbohm
It cannot at this time be too often repeated; line upon line; precept upon precept; until it comes into the currency of a proverb, To innovate is not to reform..
Edmund Burke
Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus. And the cross is the only justification for the precept of non-violence, for it alone can kindle a faith in the victory over evil which will enable men to obey that precept. And only such obedience is blessed with the promise that we shall be partakers of Christ's victory as well as his sufferings.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it’s the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has implicitly generated.
Susan Sontag
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
Paramahansa Yogananda
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