Ideal Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Are ideals attainable? Do we live to abolish death? No-we live to fear it and then again to love it, and just for death's…

— Herman Hesse

“If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.”

— Molly Collier

“A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.”

— Michael Oakeshott

“Ideals make reason inaccessible.”

— Floriano Martins

“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of…

— E.R. Braithwaite

“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest…

— Jack Kerouac

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

— Aleister Crowley

“For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things…

— Gianrico Carofiglio