Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
You need contradictions to make an ideal.
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.
Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.
Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.
It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central. . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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.
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
Nowadays I embrace it allBeautiful ideals and amazing flaws.
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.
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.
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.