Quotes about Ideal

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither exp — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. — Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. — Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark. — Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. — Ayn Rand
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its — William James, Pragmatism and Other Writings
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. — Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, — James Martineau, Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. — Oscar Wilde
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for t — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip t — Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. — Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism. — Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengab — Putu Wijaya, Gres
Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Pa — Neil Gaiman, American Gods