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)

“This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement—that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it—that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)