Sophie Swetchine Quotes

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect That no one will need to be good.

The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.