Ideal Perfection Quotes

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality