Quotes About Ideal

This argument—"We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,"97—was a politico-military ideal but an inaccurate prediction, for both Cicero and the Roman republic, in part due to the inferiority of their arms, were killed within the year by Caesar's standing army.

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

I wanted to make it your fantasy high school. Whatever your feelings were about going to school - and most people were not happy in high school - I wanted to make everyone feel this is the school they wish they had gone to.

The agility of prime, not the stability of maturity, is the ideal goal for healthy organizations.

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Choose your ideal clients so you work only with people who inspire and energize you.

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don't accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Se buscan así mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse

De eso se desprende que el ideal estético del acuerdo categórico con el ser es un mundo en el que la mierda es negada y todos se comportan como sino existiese. Este ideal estético se llama Kisth elimina lo esencialmente inaceptable

La obsesión de los primeros es lírica: se buscan a sí mismos en las mujeres, buscan su ideal y se ven repetidamente desengañados porque un ideal es, como sabemos, aquello que nunca puede encontrarse. El desengaño que los lleva de una mujer a otra le brinda a su inconstancia cierta disculpa romántica, de modo que muchas mujeres sentimentales pueden sentirse conmovidas por su terca poligamia.

There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit.

I have not the qualifications for teaching my philosophy of life. I have barely qualifications for practicing the philosophy I believe. I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wholly truthful and wholly nonviolent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal.

Anyone with time on their hands can hatch elaborate schemes for a better future, just as anyone can sketch endless plans for a magnificent novel they never get around to writing because they are endlessly sketching plans for it. The point for Marx is not to dream of an ideal future, but to resolve the contradictions in the present which prevent a better future from coming about. When this has been achieved, there will be no more need for people like himself.

Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.

Protecting life is the primary obligation of someone who has the bodhisattva ideal.