Quotes About Refinement

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

The essence of good taste is never to be offended by bad taste.

He seeks life where it is to be found: in all that is most delicate, in the folds of things.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Los Sufis apuntan a refinar la consciencia humana. Esto es el misticismo Sufi: no mistificación o magia, pero una vía específica.

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Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

The best and worst of writing is that it could always be better.

This is the time for me to hone my methodologies for the world to see; to truly make this world better.

Le goût est la qualité fondamentale qui résume toutes les autres qualités. C'est le nec plus ultra de l'intelligence. Ce n'est que par lui seul que le génie est la santé suprême et l'équilibre de toutes les facultés.

Perfection is in the little things

On the other hand, preunderstandings are beliefs or perceptions that are fluid in that they are open to adjustment, refinement, or development by further interaction and reflection.

Eventually I understood that a man in possession of Bildung was more than merely cultivated: he was ideally purified by humanism, an aristocrat of sensibility and wisdom.

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

I'm just picky about certain things in the videos, so I'm always switching out things that look or sound better.

There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.

My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

His attempt at polite discussion having been rebuffed, Cam sat back as the soup was removed and the second course was brought out. Sweetbreads in béchamel sauce, partridges nestled in herb beds, pigeon pies, roast snipe, and vegetable soufflé laced the air with a cacophony of rich scents.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.