Perfection/paradoxes

Famous quotes containing the words perfection and/or paradoxes:

“Orsino. For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Viola. And so they are. Alas, that they are so:
To die even when they to perfection grow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author’s book at all, but rather in the reader’s head.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)