There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good. — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand," Marron said quietly.” — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had… — Elizabeth Ray Copy Share Image
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My ideal world was the early days of Twitter, where everyone was curious about each other and everyone saw it as kind… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if… — Nick Mallett Copy Share Image
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The vegan believes that if we are to be true emancipators of animals we must renounce absolutely our traditional and conceited attitude… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the… — Khoo Swee Chiow Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Every American, including our president, represents that we uphold the highest ideals of the world. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
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