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Hi
I've been trying to hunt down a quote I vaguely remember, with little luck. Unfortunately Search engines and quote websites insist on some specifics. I've been striking out with what I've tried (thousands of hits are as useless as none) I hoped someone here might be able to figure it out.
The quote is how it is best (even safer?) if an book written/printed have at least one error, one misprint, to keep it from getting too close to perfection - because it will become too powerful if attains that. Pretty foggy memory I've got on it.
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I don't know the quote, but I do remember reading somewhere that all genuine Persian carpets have a mistake in the pattern somewhere because perfection belongs only to Allah.
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Persian carpets have a mistake in the pattern somewhere because perfection belongs only to Allah.
Pretty condescending, isn't it?
Well I *could have made it perfect, but that would have been a slap in God's face, so I intentionally put this one imperfection in it.
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re: I do remember reading somewhere that all genuine Persian carpets have a mistake in the pattern somewhere because perfection belongs only to Allah.
I heard that too, and i can even remember where-- on the tour of the UN in the early '60s.
there is also the idea, that "perfection is the enemy of good".. a rabbi taught me that, but i don't if it from the bible, or elsewhere.
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there is also the idea, that "perfection is the enemy of good".. a rabbi taught me that, but i don't if it from the bible, or elsewhere.
This feels closer to what I was looking for. I'd read a more specific quote of it (or similar practice) which was in the front of a book. Of course, I can't recall which one now and I don't seem to have it in my library any more, for looking. It may have even been a clever, artful way of describing the practice, so it felt like a quote, at least in my deteriorated memory of it.
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pretty condescending
or showing great humility? "We don't even aspire to the creation of perfection, knowing it is not the province of humanity"
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it is not the province of humanity
Then we needn't intentionally avoid it. It hardly seems to me to be a sign of humility to be intentionally imperfect if it will happen of itself.
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perfection is the enemy of good
This seems to me to be saying that if we get used to perfection then mere good will not be sufficient. Not quite the same thing as getting too close to perfection - because it will become too powerful if attains that, which seems to be closer to the stepping on the toes of God feeling.
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Persian carpets have a mistake in the pattern somewhere...
careful... you guys are close to treading on religious threads. :-|
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