Human Perfection Quotes
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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into.
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
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If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This was a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief in progress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered so much in such a world?
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
