Ideals Quotes - Page 11

• The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

  Confucius

  Mean, People, Perfection

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

  Paul Samuelson

  Land, Essentials, Incentives

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• If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
  if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving Up, Lying, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Artist, Giving

  Nikola Tesla (1978). “Simpozij Nikola Tesla: u okviru programa proslave 120. obljetnice rođenja Nikole Tesle : Zagreb, Smiljan, Gospić, 7-10. jula 1976”

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• Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.

  Nikola Tesla

  Believe, Space, Soul

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Expectations, Frustrated

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• Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations; he must forsake every course of action that is not in accord with his highest ideals.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Temptation, Action

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.222, e-artnow

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• The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?

  Murray Rothbard

  Unique, Men, Years

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1309, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.146, Vintage

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

  Donald James

  Self, Perfect, Historical

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• Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Perfect, Imagination, Conception

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.33, e-artnow

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• Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Wish

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.33, e-artnow

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• The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Causes, Principles

  Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

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• The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Knowledge, Science, Hands

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1924). “The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties”

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• At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

  Clarence H. Burns

  Dream, Reality, Politics

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• All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

  Ronald Knox

  Loyalty, Thinking, Men

  Ronald Knox (2010). “In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics”, p.105, Ignatius Press

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• He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

  Robert Ley

  Believe, Sunshine, Men

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.

  Nikolay Alexeyev

  Gay, Community, Quality

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

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• There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Believe, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.201, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

  Norbert Capek

  Encouragement, Inspirational Life, Fighting

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• I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want. There's no other media, exception for fictional books, where you can do that. But additional to books you also have the picture, it's not only the text and that's the reason why, in terms of getting to the heart of the people, getting to the emotions of people, TV is the ideal media to get them. There is no other media who can do that.

  Gerhard Zeiler

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Equality, Erosion, Liberty

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• I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Years, Personality

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• In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

  Jean Paul

  Science, Idols, Moral

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