Conform Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image “Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conform Reality
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research… — Benedict Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image