"The true perfection of man lies not..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
More by Oscar Wilde
“The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.”
“The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.”
“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”
More on Perfection
“See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.”
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”
“One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.”
More on Identity
“My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”
“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”
“I can never turn my back on a city that made me.”