Ibid., p. 150
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O homem perfeito do pagão era a perfeição do homem que há; o homem perfeito do cristão a perfeição do homem que não há; o homem perfeito do budista a perfeição de não haver homem.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 122
“A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.”
Maxim 609, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.
“Man is never perfect, nor contented.”
L’homme n’est jamais ni parfait, ni content.
Source: The Mysterious Island (1874), Part I, ch. XXII
“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”
Source: Reviews
“No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.”
Source: The Red Dice
“That soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.”
Epilogue. Compare: "An honest man's the noblest work of God", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
“No man should be a perfect physician to any but himself.”
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