The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

A good song never gets old.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It’s not real life.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.