Quotes About Ideal

I don't like most Utopia stories because I don't believe them for a moment. It seems inevitable that my Utopia would be someone else's hell.

Thus, though there is normally no such thing as sin among the stars, no deliberate choice of the course known to be wrong for the sake of some end known to be irrelevant, there is ignorance, and consequent aberration from the pattern of the ideal as revealed to stars of somewhat maturer mentality.

A menudo me pregunto por qué nos gustan unas personas y no otras. Y sobre este tema tengo mi propia teoría: existe una forma armónica e ideal a la que de manera instintiva tiende nuestro cuerpo. Escogemos en los otros aquellos rasgos que podrían cumplir con ese ideal. El objetivo de la evolución es meramente estético y nada tiene que ver con ninguna adaptación. A la evolución lo que le interesa es la belleza, alcanzar la máxima perfección de cada forma

The very pink of perfection.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Rawls also saw ethical agreement on a certain ideal of citizenship as the basis for determining principles of justice.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

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 landing.

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.

The Western cult of happiness is indeed a strange adventure, something like a collective intoxication. In the guise of emancipation, it transforms a high ideal into its opposite. Condemned to joy, we must be happy or lose all standing in society. It is not a question of knowing whether we are more or less happy than our ancestors; our conception of the thing itself has changed, and we are probably the first society in history to make people unhappy for not being happy.

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world. The

IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

Eres tú flor carnal de mi jardin ideal.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.

Le Poète, l'amour du Beau, voilà sa foi, L'Azur, son étendard, et l'Idéal, sa loi !

I wanted something grand and sweeping." "The kind of love you find in novels?" "Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or "sub-oppressors." The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity.

Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.