Quotes About Ideal

However difficult the objective, there is always a way of overcoming obstacles. He seeks out alternative paths, he sharpens his sword, he tries to fill his heart with the necessary determination to face the challenge. But as he advances, the warrior realises that there are difficulties he had not reckoned with. If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set of; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step.

IN practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

I never wanted to settle for 'good enough.' I wanted 'great' or nothing.

The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy. —Anonymous

As we walked down the boardwalk at the beach, I asked Jordan about his uptick in personal style. It turns out it was one of his 12 Rules for Life that didn't make the final edit. "Dress like the person you want to be," he told me. "I took it from Nietzsche. He once said 'every great man is an actor of his own ideal,' which means you have to act out whatever you want to be, then you'll become it.

the woven basket between them piled high with greens. The boy and girl looked like some Rousseau ideal, a fantasy of the way the world was supposed to be if civilization went away.

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

Humanism was not a loss of confidence either in art or in art's capacity to exceed historical scholarship. For Panofsky humanism meant dedication to a balanced ideal of human nature. As such, it was a formal concept. Humanism sees asymmetries and imbalances in human nature as deformations. Humanism is the form classicism takes after the discrediting of the Idea.

Tak ada orang progresif yang berpikiran sehat akan menentang cita-cita komunis, yang mencakup bantuan di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Kami menyetujui ini semua. Tetapi aku tidak mungkin meninggalkan Tuhan. Aku tidak mungkin membuang nasionalisme dan aku tidak dapat membayangkan bagaimana aku bisa melepaskan diri dari sifat angkuh, jadi aku tidak mungkin menjadi seorang komunis.

Het volstaat iemand ernstig te horen praten of ideaal, toekomst, filosofie, hem zelfverzekerd 'wij' te horen zeggen, 'anderen' aan te roepen en zich hun tolk te wanen - om hem als mijn vijand te beschouwen. Ik herken in hem een mislukte tiran, een beul bijna, even verfoeilijk als de tirannen, als de beulen van groot formaat.

Het volstaat iemand ernstig te horen praten over ideaal, toekomst, filosofie, hem zelfverzekerd 'wij' te horen zeggen, 'anderen' aan te roepen en zich hun tolk te wanen - om hem als mijn vijand te beschouwen. Ik herken in hem een mislukte tiran, een beul bijna, even verfoeilijk als de tirannen, als de beulen van groot formaat.

Nesse dia, pois, ele conheceu uma das raras formas de estabilidade: A estabilidade do desejo irrealizável, a estabilidade do ideal inatingível

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Timelessness is the ideal of pleasure.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.

if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

Utopia, after all, is not a place one can live.