Sentence examples for individual perfection from inspiring English sources

Tennis, like golf, both solitary sports played by precious, complex personalities with an intense drive for individual perfection, has historically produced players of notable volubility.

From Plato onward, Rorty wrote, moral philosophers have attempted "to bring together the public and the private, the parts of the state and the parts of the soul, the search for social justice and the search for individual perfection".

Bach's fugues remain unsurpassed in their extraordinary variety and in their individual perfection, and no other composer produced so many resplendent examples of fugues large and small for every medium available to him at the time.

The emphasis on personal achievement has done more than turn the admissions process into a race to rack up résumé points; more important, to the extent that elite colleges set the pace, it is turning the educational culture into one that stresses individual perfection instead of one that stresses social improvement.

Though the body is not resurrected after its corruption, the soul survives and retains all the individual characteristics, perfections or imperfections, that it achieved in its earthly existence and in this sense is rewarded or punished for its past deeds.

Thus not only is the divine nature identical to an individual, each divine perfection is identical to an individual, namely God, whence it follows that each perfection is identical to every other one.

Cultivation is a Chinese term that describes the process by which an individual seeks spiritual perfection, often through both physical and moral conditioning.

Averroes was aware that very few if any individuals reach intellectual perfection, i.e., mastery of all there is to know, and even that person cannot maintain the state of conjunction indefinitely, being human and requiring food, drink, and non-intellectual pursuits.

Their presence is essential to the individual striving for rational perfection, however non-essential from the standpoint of the universal substances themselves.

For it would not be a perfection of an individual to live for only a single temporal instant.

Poetry was judged according to the perfection of its individual verses.