Quotes About Ideals

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

Struggles of the battlefields pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inward enemies! No mortal foes these, to be overcome by harrowing array of might! Omnipresent, unresting, pursuing man even in sleep, subtly equipped with a miasmic weapon, these soldiers of ignorant lusts seek to slay us all. Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate. Can he seem other than impotent, wooden, ignominious?

had the heart of a socialist and the soul of a missionary

Romantico nel significato peggiore del termine, cioè contrassegnato da ideali melensi o insipidi che soltanto un'adolescente, o una società adolescente, potevano coltivare.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.

Society is founded not on the ideals but on the nature of man

States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.

To observe processes and to construct means is science; to criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy: and because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Better than Grace Kelly but no Sophia Loren.

We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

I know all too well how it is when the beautiful visions you've been fed don't match up with reality.

L'échec de ses tentatives est dû à ce qu'elles ont toutes accepté la prétention exorbitante de la psychanalyse d'être, non pas un système d'interprétation de la subjectivité, mais la subjectivité même [...] Sous couvert d'introduire le matérialisme dans la subjectivité, on introduisait en fait l'ennemi dans la place, l'idéalisme dans l'histoire.

Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

When every action and thought is geared to the building of a new society, there is little room left for feelings.

All our dreams begin in youth.

Literature is my Utopia

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win