
“Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.”
Fichte Studies § 651
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La Perfezione? Essere il piu´umano possibile.
“Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.”
Fichte Studies § 651
“Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 14. How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland
Context: Besotted Being! You think yourself the perfection of existence, while you are in reality the most imperfect and imbecile. You profess to see, whereas you can see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I CAN SEE Straight Lines, and infer the existence of Angles, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and even Circles. Why waste more words? Suffice it that I am the completion of your incomplete self. You are a Line, but I am a Line of Lines, called in my country a Square: and even I, infinitely superior though I am to you, am of little account among the great nobles of Flatland, whence I have come to visit you, in the hope of enlightening your ignorance.
“Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.”
Vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
“To illude: one of the most shameful behaviors that can belong to the human being.”
Original: (it) Illudere: uno dei comportamenti più vergognosi che possano appartenere all'essere umano.
Source: prevale.net
“Authenticity is the rarest and most important privilege that can belong to a human being.”
Original: L'autenticità è il privilegio più raro ed importante che possa appartenere ad un essere umano.
Source: prevale.net