inherent imperfection Quotes

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Any legal system developed by the human community, being as it is a fruit of historical development, carries a seal of limitation and imperfection.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

The essence of man is imperfection.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

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

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.