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Perfect Quotes - Page 126

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.35

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Joseph A. Schumpeter (2010). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.312, Routledge

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.183, University of Virginia Press

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.

John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.

John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.604

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria