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Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting. — Mark Twain

Praise Him who went before to search out a Resting-place. May it be a place of victory too, for His own glory's sake. — Amy Carmichael

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately. — Julian Baggini

God calls you to productivity, but he calls you to the right kind of productivity. He calls you to be productive for his sake, not your own. — Tim Challies

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. — Georges Bataille

We never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end. — Rajneesh

A calling is the most satisfying form of work because, as gratification, it is done for its own sake rather than for the material benefits it brings, — Daniel H. Pink

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good. — James McGreevey

Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe ... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time. — David Icke

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air. — Daniel H. Wilson

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth. — Peter Thiel

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. — Adam Smith

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end. — Max Jacob

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you. — Oscar Wilde

Change is not for its own sake, it's the means to the end, not the end. — Pearl Zhu

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. — John Keats

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active. — Billy Joel

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. — E. O. Wilson

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. — Mary Ellen Chase

Some things you can't apologize for, you just have to try to get around them," Hattie replied. "For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace. — Ayana Mathis

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life. — Wayne Grudem

Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance. — Matthew Donnelly

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

People in fact talk most often for their own sake, and with a need to hear the echo of their words. — Mesa Selimovic

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

Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake. — Dolly Parton

I have never designed a language for its own sake. — Niklaus Wirth

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ... — Freya Stark

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions — Dag Hammarskjold

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. — Steven Pressfield

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. — J.I. Packer

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley

I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others.
-Bunny — E.W. Hornung

His own sake and the love of our neighbor for God's sake
is the fulfillment and the end of all Scripture. — Augustine Of Hippo

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes. — Arthur Schopenhauer

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake. — Martin Buber

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes. — Bertrand Russell

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer. — Rob Corddry

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others ... — N.D. Wilson

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake. — Juliet Marillier

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better. — Richard Smalley

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. — C.S. Lewis

You never find virtuosity for its own sake. — Daniel Hope

Just for the sake of my own stupid pleasure — Chad Harbach

Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. — Jasper Fforde

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. — John Selden

I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If — Erich Fromm

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain. — Miguel De Cervantes

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. — Suzanne Farrell

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. — Ed Miliband

I was to be buried inside my own creation, the better to keep its secrets. I will not tell you more, for your sake. But if you ask, I will answer. — Jedediah Berry

A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray. — Maurice Druon

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer. — Alan Hirsch

For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon. — Radclyffe Hall

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings. — James P. Carse

You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake. — Sam Altman

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. — Tryon Edwards

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. — Mahatma Gandhi

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. — Peter Kreeft

A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton — A. Lee Martinez

We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. — Cassandra Clare

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own. — Thomas Aquinas

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite. — Anne Fortier

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. — Loretta Lynch

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. — George Bernard Shaw

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde

The thing is ... what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this - you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own. — Alexandra Bracken

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities ... — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake. — Pema Chodron

Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it. — Klaus Topfer

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake. — Thomas A Kempis

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. — Christopher Hitchens

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake. — Richard Sennett

To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I wush for his own sake that he'd have a big steaming cup of calm the hell down. — C.J. Daugherty

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own? — John Lancaster Spalding

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake ... — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no value in the reading of Scripture for its own sake, but only if it effectively introduces us to Jesus Christ. — John R.W. Stott

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. — Margaret Thatcher

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. — Dan Webster

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth. — Miguel De Unamuno