Quotes About Ideal

Universal behavior is great on paper, disastrous in practice.

The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.

We should not sacrifice self to others nor others to self; we should discard the idea of human sacrifice as a moral ideal. Relationships based on an exchange of values are superior to those based on the sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.

All human progress is in a circle; or, to use a more accurate and beautiful figure, in an ascending spiral curve. While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.

While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

Car je ne puis trouver parmi ces pâles roses Une fleur qui ressemble à mon rouge idéal.

Doar moartea consoleaz? ?i-ndeamn? a tr?i;e idealul vie?ii ?i e n?dejdea toat?,e elixirul care ne-anim? ?i ne-mbat? ?i care d? puterea s? mai tr?im o zi.

De ahí que Stendhal, un espíritu impertinente, burlón, incluso odioso, se acercara más que muchos otros a la verdad al decir que «Lo bello no es sino la promesa de la felicidad». Sin duda esta definición sobrepasa su objetivo; somete lo bello al ideal infinitamente variable de la felicidad; despoja con excesiva ligereza lo bello de su carácter aristocrático; pero tiene el gran mérito de alejarse decididamente del error de los académicos.

Woe betide the man who goes to antiquity for the study of anything other than ideal art, logic and general method! By immersing, himself too deeply in it, he will no longer have the present in his mind's eye; he throws away the value and the privileges afforded by circumstance; for nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that it impresses upon our sensibility.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

Me and my daughter, we are obsessed with makeup and so are our followers, and we communicate, we want to know what they like, what they want, what is their perfect, ideal product that's missing on the market? So everything we create, we share and we give credit to our followers.

I grew up looking up a lot to '90s supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. I just thought those women were such cool role models because they had a good body ideal, too.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those, who are not more careful to use their power justly than to show their determination not to submit to injustice. On the contrary, your ideal of fair dealing is based on the principle that, if you do not injure others, you need not risk your own fortunes in preventing others from injuring you.

Optimal range would have been nice, but then 'optimal' merely meant 'preferred'.

A social democracy of fear is something to fight for. To abandon the labors of a century is to betray those who came before us as well as generations yet to come. It would be pleasing—but misleading—to report that social democracy, or something like it, represents the future that we would paint for ourselves in an ideal world. It does not even represent the ideal past. But among the options available to us in the present, it is better than anything else to hand.

Nietzsche's genealogical investigations do not undermine all values and all modes of evaluation equally. There are past tendencies, as well as present ones ... that Nietzsche esteems highly, and it is out of these estimations that his own ideal of the future emerges.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that will sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. —Robert F Kennedy South Africa,

A utopia has no problems to solve, but therefore no opportunities either.

I have not met a speculative utopia I would want to live in. I'd be bored in utopia. Dystopias, their dark opposites, are a lot more entertaining.

Tomo: You see, it's only the boobcage that I'm lacking. My only flaw. That's why I harp on you. Kagura: Huh? Lacking to be what? Tomo: To be my ideal woman. Kagura: Ideal? Who's your ideal woman?, Tomo: ... Fujiko Mine from "Lupin III". Kagura: WHAT!?