Home / Topics / Perfection Quotes

Perfection Quotes

Browse 2847 quotes about Perfection.

Perfection Quotes

“The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.”

Evil Existence Prove Perfection Contradiction

Book:SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life

“The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.”

World Philosophy Moral Keys Perfection Fulfillment Revelations Contradiction Interpretation Seeming

Author:Max Muller

“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.”

Men Needs Evil Perfection Optimism Essence Species Selfishness Contradiction Good And Evil Imperfection Altruism Affirmation Blazing Negation Fatalism

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.”

World Trying Perfect Heard Built Perfection Including Statements Contradiction Guru Captured Dissatisfaction Rams

Book:The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives

Source: The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives

“I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Perfect Class Fashion Dangerous Fine Walking Taste Perfection Coaches Restaurants Contradiction Mcdonalds First Class

Author:Alber Elbaz

“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.”

Source: Karma Yoga

“Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.”

Life Is Term Perfect Knowing Highest Ideals Perfection Bounds Contradiction Perfect Life

Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.”

Believe Doe Hard Seems Process Natural Perfection Miracle Reasoning Contradiction Mathematician Selection Domain Exploits Skirts Natural Selection Hard To Believe Recklessness

Author:Eugene Wigner

“Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.”