Quotes About Perfection

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.