Joseph Campbell Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Real, Mean

• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

  Joseph Campbell

  Perfection, Made, Process

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

• Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Perfection, Clumsiness

• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

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