Quotes About Ideals

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.

If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.

There was a rift in American life that was now coursing through American government. It wasn't between Democrats and Republicans. It was between the people who were in it for the mission, and the people who were in it for the money.

Personal ideals and values can result in general happiness for society as a whole, if we become fully engaged with the righteousness of the soul mind as the core power of Self.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Selon Troubetskoï, "nous devons nous habituer à l'idée que le monde romano-germanique, avec toute sa culture, soit notre pire ennemi. Nous devons renverser et piétiner sans pitié les idoles des idéaux sociaux et des préjugés empruntés à l'Occident, qui orientent toujours les idées de nos intellectuels

I was very brave in theory

reality is never as perfect as fantasy.

Los críticos ven en los poemas la expresión de los sentimientos naturales humanos que prevalecían en el país antes de la incorporación de los ideales confucianos de corrección y moderación.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals.

Sunja had made a mistake; however, she didn't believe that her son came from a bad seed. The Japanese said that Koreans had too much anger and heat in their blood. Seeds, blood. How could you fight such hopeless ideas? Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed the rules and was the best, then somehow the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe in such cruel ideals.

Sunja was a pragmatic woman, but even she thought Hansu was unusually cruel. The more she got to know this man, the more she realized that the man she'd loved as a girl was an idea she'd had of him – feelings without any verification.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe in such cruel ideals.

The more she got to know this man, the more she realized that the man she'd loved as a girl was an idea she'd had of him - feelings without any verification.

It is possible that characters need to die for the author to make her moral point, for the author himself to regenerate by letting go of an ideal identity, or for the world to recognize the necessity of certain ideas and ideals to die.

If you go personally to war, you cross the line yourself. You sacrifice ideals for survival and the fury of killing. That alters you forever. That is why no one rushes to be a veteran. Think before you want to change so unalterably. The stakes are not merely one's life, but one's very humanity.

I wondered what exactly the war had accomplished. Men had fought great battles: the Battle of the Bulge, the battle for Monte Casino, the battle for the beaches, for God and country, for God and freedom, for God and a pure race. They had left hundreds of cities in ruins and their people without shelter or food.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives.

Everything that is perfect is also real, and things that are not perfect are still imaginary, until we reach the state of absolute reality.

Since every religion is based upon a philosophical idea, it would make sense that we are all following the philosophies of our religious founders.