One who seeks perfection will never stop taking steps, compared to which any finite number of steps is as little as no steps.
But surely, there must be some really high level of achievment that we can qualify as being further than the first step at least!
Sure there can… if your point of reference for what counts as a “step” is the expected rate of other humans’progress. But, as the author writes in the previous paragraph on humility (reread for context if needed):
One who seeks perfection will never stop taking steps, compared to which any finite number of steps is as little as no steps.
But surely, there must be some really high level of achievment that we can qualify as being further than the first step at least!
Sure there can… if your point of reference for what counts as a “step” is the expected rate of other humans’ progress. But, as the author writes in the previous paragraph on humility (reread for context if needed):