It really isn’t. Hatred and infatuation are both further away from understanding than admiration is. So, I expect, is indifference. Then there’s the state of ‘incomprehension’...
Apart from being technically absurd the quote also gives a message that I don’t particularly like. I’ll cynical it up with the best of them but I reserve the right to admire things that I understand. In fact, I’ve discovered that my taste in music largely consists of admiring songs that convey insight that I understand and empathise with. This holds even when confessing to liking Hillary Duff and Pink sends all the wrong signals of affiliation.
Infatuation would probably be a better word to describe the attitude of the character Aizen’s referring to in that quote, although the subtitle says “admiration.”
Perfection does not exist in this world. It may seem like a cliche, but it’s true.
Obviously, mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out.
However, what meaning is there in “perfection”? None. Not a bit. “Perfection”
disgusts me. After “perfection” there exists nothing higher. Not even room for
“creation”, which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either.
Understand? To scientists like ourselves, “perfection” is “despair”.
Even if something is created that is more magnificient than anything before it, it
still however, will be far from perfect.
Scientists are constantly struggling with that antinomy. And furthermore, must
become beings capable of drawing pleasure from such.
In short, the instant that absurd word, “perfection”, came from your lips, you had
already been defeated by me.
It’s possible, and not undesirable, to achieve perfection. For example, the majority of words I type are spelled perfectly, and the perfect answer to “what is two plus two?” is “four”. It’s just not possible or desirable to achieve it everywhere.
“Admiration is the state furthest from understanding.”—Sosuke Aizen, Bleach
It really isn’t. Hatred and infatuation are both further away from understanding than admiration is. So, I expect, is indifference. Then there’s the state of ‘incomprehension’...
Apart from being technically absurd the quote also gives a message that I don’t particularly like. I’ll cynical it up with the best of them but I reserve the right to admire things that I understand. In fact, I’ve discovered that my taste in music largely consists of admiring songs that convey insight that I understand and empathise with. This holds even when confessing to liking Hillary Duff and Pink sends all the wrong signals of affiliation.
I like Pink...
Leave me the fuck alone.
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Sharing CronDAS’s appreciation of Pink without, well, inviting him to come home. Good song that. Perhaps her best.
“Who Knew?” would have been less of an apparent vulgar non-sequitur.
You’re right and I love that song too!
Haven’t actually heard that one.
The ones I can remember having heard on the radio are “Who Knew?”, “U + Ur Hand”, “So What”, “Sober”, and “Please Don’t Leave Me”. I liked them all.
To put it In context, the quote should read: “admiration for another person is the state furthest from understanding.”
Infatuation would probably be a better word to describe the attitude of the character Aizen’s referring to in that quote, although the subtitle says “admiration.”
… perfect existence, huh?
Perfection does not exist in this world. It may seem like a cliche, but it’s true. Obviously, mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out.
However, what meaning is there in “perfection”? None. Not a bit. “Perfection” disgusts me. After “perfection” there exists nothing higher. Not even room for “creation”, which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either.
Understand? To scientists like ourselves, “perfection” is “despair”.
Even if something is created that is more magnificient than anything before it, it still however, will be far from perfect.
Scientists are constantly struggling with that antinomy. And furthermore, must become beings capable of drawing pleasure from such.
In short, the instant that absurd word, “perfection”, came from your lips, you had already been defeated by me.
-- Kurotsuchi Mayuri
It’s possible, and not undesirable, to achieve perfection. For example, the majority of words I type are spelled perfectly, and the perfect answer to “what is two plus two?” is “four”. It’s just not possible or desirable to achieve it everywhere.