Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity. — Bruno Schulz
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of… — Dean Koontz
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in… — E. M. Forster
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires… — Chuck Palahniuk
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to… — Anne Carson
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the… — Emma Goldman
I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy.… — E L Doctorow
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to… — Ernest Becker
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. — Zadie Smith
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting… — Alfred North Whitehead
There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the… — Tsugumi Ohba
1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading.… — Max Brooks
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of… — Gustave Flaubert
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves.… — Thomas Friedman
The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person. — Ann Aguirre
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal… — Victor Hugo
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we… — Oscar Wilde
Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal… — Kiersten White

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