#perfection

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#discovery #fiction #mystery #overdetermination #perfection

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#because #care #drive #i #i can

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#contained #form #hold #i #men

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ↗

— Michelangelo

#make #perfection #trifle #trifles

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#another #error #extended #god #human

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#contemplation #day #days #fatal #human

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#getting #i #i am #perfectionist #pretty