Perfection/paradoxes

Famous quotes containing the words perfection and/or paradoxes:

“There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely that which all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)