Human Flaw Quotes

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

There is no man who does not sin.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

I have made a lot of mistakes.

Man is rotten with perfection.

Human nature is weak.

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!