Century Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human…

— E. Stanley Jones

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives…

— Ellen Key

“Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence of any thing…

— John Gardner

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission…

— Lynn Coady

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions,…

— Peter Singer

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem…

— Criss Jami

“Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

“Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists,…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there…

— G.K. Chesterton