Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. — Jurgen Habermas
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction,… — Hannah Arendt
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man… — John F. Kennedy
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. — Isadora Duncan
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who… — Walter Dean Myers
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon, — Bill Ayers
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when compared with some… — Elena Kagan
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real… — John Updike
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict… — Victor Hugo
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. — Victor Hugo
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it… — Robert E. Lee
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Unknown Author
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. — William Butler Yeats
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality… — Albert Camus
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it… — George Bellows
We see but in dreams the ideal. — Unknown Author
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,… — James Boswell
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through… — Abraham Maslow
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,… — Robert Smithson
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway… — Shana Alexander
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from… — R. D. Laing
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build… — Unknown Author
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who… — Jean Baudrillard

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