Quotes About Ideal

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand.

Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.

The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.

Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.

Liberty, above all, has been the most profound ideal of Judeo-Christianity, liberty of mind and soul and body, a new concept among men. It is no wonder, then, that the foes of freedom first attack religion, which liberated mankind.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Style-wise, I'm not ideal to fight, but I'm not taking anything away from 'Canelo' Alvarez, he's a special fighter and he's one of the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world for a reason.

The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.