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perfection
Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.”
Abbé Pierre
good
perfection
Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.”
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics
joy
Man
perfection
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dalí
fear
perfection
It seems that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
perfection
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
Eugene Delacroix
artist
perfection
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
Albrecht Dürer
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Four Books of Human Proportion
beauty
form
Man
perfection
The perfect does not lie in quantity but in quality.”
Baltasar Gracian
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
perfection
It is through their completeness that souls are happy.”
Friedrich Schiller
happiness
perfection
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
action
perfection
thought
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
Émile Zola
beauty
life
perfection
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.”
Winston Churchill
change
perfection
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.”
Voltaire
perfection
time
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.”
Epictetus
happiness
perfection
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.”
Albert Einstein
perfection
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
Gustave Flaubert
artist
perfection
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.”
Gottfried Leibniz
perfection
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”
Albert Einstein
perfection
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
Oscar Wilde
art
perfection
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
perfection
pleasure
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
perfection
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”
Alfred Adler
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