Quotes About Perfection

The belief that human nature is essentially corrupt taints our vision of life with pessimism and makes us question the very basis of the search for happiness, that is, every human being's potential for perfection.

In every sphere of human activity there are sources of inspiration whose perfection, far from discouraging us, in fact whets our enthusiasm by holding out an admirable vision of that to which we aspire.

Si piensa que todo es perfecto en su vida, o bien es usted un buda, o bien es completamente idiota.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

The true conjurer finds his guerdon in the consciousness of work done perfectly and for its own sake.

A fitted shoe is a right good shoe," said the old man, enthusiastically. "I'll fit that shoe to the breadth of a hair." "And you'll be all the night about it," declared the son. "Better a late start than a never ending," said the father.

we should turn our most unsparing criticism toward ourselves. None is so perfect that there is no room for improvement.

For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want to remain restricted instead of becoming unrestricted! Why do they hate abstractions? Because they themselves are abstract since they abstract from the perfection of themselves, from the elevation of redeeming truth!

If religion has set up the proposition that we are sinners altogether, I set over against it the other: we are perfect altogether! For we are, every moment, all that we can be; and we never need be more.

Why replicate this world that has gone? Because it was so perfect? But it was not. But it was. Perfect because it was the world before the world changed.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Edmond just lay there smoking and telling me he loved me without saying anything out loud and if there ever was a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about. The

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn't see any.

Individually there were things we lacked, but together we were perfect.

I got it together, of course. I always did. I pushed away what shamed me and made me unhappy, and I smoothed out the rest to make a pretty, perfect surface. It was getting harder and harder to do.

We were perfect in our imperfection.

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds and big words, and yet they strive for and desire so many things, they wish to possess so much and are so concerned both with themselves and with this thing and that. They assert that they are seeking great piety and devotion, and yet they cannot accept a single word of reproval without answering back. Be certain of this: they are far from God and are not in union with him.

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".