“There is nothing perfectly true for man; I mean in human opinions. Just like there is nothing perfectly round.”

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Joseph Joubert253

French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Takehiko Inoue (1967) Japanese artist

“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did… I sleep clearly every night.”

Paul Tibbets (1915–2007) United States Air Force pilot

1975 interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7073441.stm

“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke — it deprives a man of the best part of life … with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him — literally.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 3

“In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous”

Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) American architect

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous, yet the whole and every part is supremely decorative.<!-- Introduction