Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.
Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.