#perfection

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#came #down #end #get #goal

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#dr #general #imperfection #intelligence #method

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#hollywood #kind #lead #neurosis #obsession

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. ↗

— David Hume

#avidity #fly #greatest #imperfections #just

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#character #conceives #culture #growing #having

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#described #love #perfection #properly #study

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗