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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
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
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
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
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
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
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
— John Keats
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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 sakeis 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
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.
— Osamu Dazai
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
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
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
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
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Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.
— Cassandra Clare
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 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
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
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
