Quotes About Ideal

What woman would not gladly perform a painful pilgrimage, if so she could but find her Jove, and then fall down and worship him! Alas! the actual Jupiters are very scarce.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect lover.

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

I want a love like they have in the movies.

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

With a typical contract, one party decides what should be done and hands over the design to another party to implement and often to a third party to deploy and support. Although it may be unavoidable, such a contractual approach is far from ideal; it increases costs and decreases flexibility.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Elle porte de grosse chaussures tristes - des sandales de nonne -, idéales pour écraser les rêves.

And you can see her beauty. If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.

The reduction no longer involves a return to ideal being, but brings us back to the spirit of Heraclitus, to an interweaving of horizons, to an open Being.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Our weakness consists not in this, that we are in opposition to others, but in this, that we are not completely so; that we are not entirely severed from them, that we still seek a "Communion", a "Bond", that in communion we have an ideal. One faith, one god, one idea, one hat, for all! If all were brought under one hat, certainly no one would need to take off his hat for another anymore.

A man's idea of God corresponds to his ideal of himself. The nobler he is, the more exalted his God.

The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!

The 'gens du monde' [for whom Boucher painted] celebrated an ideal of sociability, politesse, and reciprocity that insisted on the equality of men and women and de-emphasized sexual difference. In its entertainments, in its art, and even in its social reality, 'le monde' delighted in gender play - in mistaken identities, in cross-dressing disguise, in unresolved ambiguities and dualities.