Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

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
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable… — Sophocles
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal. — Calvin Seerveld
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. — Fred Reed
The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. — Rafael Sabatini
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if Iâ€™m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body… — Rachel Kushner
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. — Unknown Author
Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" (… — Tom Peters
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. — Lord Byron
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days.… — Unknown Author

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