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Ideal Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost…
- There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present…
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough…
- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
More Ideal Quotes
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan
- There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging… — Charles Baudelaire
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot… — Robert Benchley
- It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by… — Alfred Adler
- Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. — Sarah Bernhardt
- We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and… — Annie Besant
- Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords. — Bjork
- My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist. — Susie Bright