When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato’s world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
Perfect Quotes
How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection! (The Merchant of Venice)
Nothing quite new is perfect.
You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world.
Leave no rubs nor botches in the work. (Macbeth)
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life’s ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
It is the witness still of excellency To put a strange face on his own perfection. (Much Ado About Nothing)
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
