To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon lights in the province of the short story.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
