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The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly…

— Awdhesh Singh

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

— Grace Aguilar

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you…

— Neville Goddard

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

— Walter Lippmann

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods:…

— Evelyn Underhill

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count…

— George MacDonald

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing…

— Charles Fort

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs…

— Oscar Wilde

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

— Joseph Epstein