Eternal Quote by African Spir

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in…

— Anonymous

“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”

— Victor Hugo

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

— Aleister Crowley

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

— Aleister Crowley

“[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.”

— Thomas Pynchon

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Eternity is pure and knows to give you what you desire … You have to be clear what you ask for, or else you’ll…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

— Anonymous

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

— Lyman Abbott

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

— Austin O'Malley