Ideal Quotes - page 2

A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven. (James Madison)
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. View quote
William James
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. View quote
George Eliot
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; that constitute his ideal audience and his better self. View quote
Richard Wilbur
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. View quote
José Rizal
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests. View quote
John Rawls
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. View quote
John Ruskin
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. (Luis Barragán)
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. View quote
James A. Garfield
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes a man. View quote
Karl Kraus
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 ideal that we live. View quote
Victor Hugo
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. View quote
Brian Tracy
To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. View quote
Edmund Husserl
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. View quote
Max Stirner
I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. View quote
Albert Einstein
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers. View quote
John Ralston Saul
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him. View quote
Gary Shteyngart