Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this… — H. L. Mencken
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious… — Andre Breton
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte
She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of… — Zadie Smith
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would… — Chuck Palahniuk
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. — Barbara Tuchman
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems like the only… — E. Lockhart
Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom… — Glen Duncan
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their… — Bertrand Russell
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and… — Anne Lamott
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's… — Mary Baker Eddy
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope… — Bertrand Russell
The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so… — Sarah Dessen
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite… — Emma Goldman
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. — George Santayana
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse

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