Ideals Quotes - Page 33

• The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Names

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Hope, Tiny, Ripple

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• Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Reality, Honestly

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• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Love, Pain, Poverty

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• 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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• This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Nature, Travel

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.1, University of Arizona Press

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• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
  Star, to serve as a guiding point.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Function, North Star

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• The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Men, Ideal Society

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

  Edward Abbey

  Civilization, Names, Worthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

  Edward Abbey

  Kitchen, Add, Novel

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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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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• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Powerful, Goal

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

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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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• India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Philosophy, Race

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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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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• Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

  E. L. James

  Hero, Long, Expectations

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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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• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Change, Party, Essence

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