Discipline Quote by Bertrand Russell

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

— Tony Blair

“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.”

— Jenny Holzer

“There is a time somewhere in each of our lives, certainly before we reach the age of thirty, when our youth achieves a kind…

— Lee Vidor

“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of…

— E.R. Braithwaite

“However, it is not easy to think and behave in new ways, because our thoughts and actions are usually constrained by present-day ideologies and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Thomas Pynchon

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Victor Hugo

“There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which…

— Henry Dircks

“I must note here that even among us the process of the hardening, the crystallization of life has evidently not been completed; there are…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin