Ideals Quotes - Page 24

• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Choices, Negative, Magazines

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals.

  Booth Tarkington

  Believe, Book, Home

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• Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Art, Reality, Acting

  Press conference, June 30, 1955.

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• Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

  Charles Van Doren

  World, Should, Radical

  "Know it all" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.

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• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

  William James

  Names, World, Way

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

  Hannah Arendt

  People, Fiction, True And False

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• Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Attitude, Believe

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Successful, Earth

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• So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

  Poul Anderson

  Technology, Years, Way

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• Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

  Bill Ayers

  Pentagon

  Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.264, Beacon Press

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• As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

  David Horowitz

  Equality, America, People

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• Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.140, Vivekananda Kendra

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• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Rights, Diversity

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Needs, Bread, Rooted

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2640, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

  Robert E. Lee

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

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• Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.

  Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

  Wall, Real, Cities

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• In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Reality, Years

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• The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

  George Bellows

  Inspiring, Artist, Creative

  Marjorie B. Searl, George Bellows, Ronald Netsky, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (2003). “Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock”, Memorial Art Gallery of Univ

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• We see but in dreams the ideal.

  Henri Cazalis

  Dream

  Henri Cazalis, “Always”

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• Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Leadership, People, Promise

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• In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, College, Long

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• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

  Sophocles

  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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