Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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.
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
Perfection itself is imperfection.