Quotes About Ideal

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always heading," wrote Oscar Wilde

Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us.

Heaven is neither the place, nor time. Heaven is perfection.

The Roman clergy thus adopted the old aristocracy's ideal of libertas, which had little to do with freedom; rather, it referred to the maintenance of the privileged position of the ruling class, lest society lapse into barbarism.

The God who may have inspired the first successful peasants' uprising in history is a God of revolution. In all three faiths, he has inspired an ideal of social justice, even though it has to be said that Jews, Christians and Muslims have often failed to live up to this ideal and have transformed him into the God of the status quo.

Yet the notion of Christ's sacrificial death was similar to the ideal of the bodhisattva, which was developing at this time in India. Like the bodhisattva, Christ had, in effect, become a mediator between humanity and the Absolute, the difference being that Christ was the only mediator and the salvation he effected was not an unrealized aspiration for the future, like that of the bodhisattva, but a fait accompli.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.