Quotes About Perfection

If men could not trust in the divine agency of the gods, and if human perfection were no longer possible within the polis, the only conclusion seemed to be that man's fate was solely a personal matter.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Irish poets, learn your trade,Sing whatever is well made.

For such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The perfect man of action, is the suicide.

Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works."

Surfers have a perfection fetish. The perfect wave, etcetera. There is no such thing. Waves are not stationary objects in nature like roses or diamonds. They're quick, violent events at the end of a long chain of storm action and ocean reaction. Even the most symmetrical breaks have quirks and a totally specific, local character, changing with every shift in tide and wind and swell.

Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Heaven is a city where righteousness dwells.

Study may make one a great scholar in the Scriptures, but prayer makes a wise Christian, as it obtains sanctified knowledge, without which it is no perfect gift, but —a gift and no gift.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

One of the aims of Tantra is to recognize the divine perfection of the world by seeing it as a mandala "a celestial mansion.

That love, which fails of perfect utterance here, Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere With its immortal song.