Point of view Quote by T. S. Eliot

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

— Grace Aguilar

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

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“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

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

— Leon Blum

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

— Mary Parker Follett

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

— Gustave Flaubert

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

— Alex Shakar