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Ideal Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
- 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.
- There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic…
- The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by…
- The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
- Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
- I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you…
- The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The…
- The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
- Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal…
- 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…
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