We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.” — Kristen Heitzmann Copy Share Image
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in going on offense, and I think Hillary Clinton is the ideal target on whom to go on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying?… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected,… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody… — Bill Rodgers Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed… — Norbert Capek Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
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