Quotes of: Ideal-man Keyword

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Victor Hugo

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Tony Judt

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Francis Herbert Hedge

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Anita Brookner

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

E. F. Schumacher

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be short lived, and you may feel that you are nev...

The White Knight Syndrome: Rescuing Yourself from Your Need to Rescue Others

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Raymond Chandler

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

The Death of the Heart

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

The Adventures of Sally

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

I Say No

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.

The Secret Sharer

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

Winter Dreams

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. Yo...

Max Stirner

The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, fam...

Vitruvius

The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men, then an...

J. Gresham Machen

We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.

The Ideal in the West

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Thomas Sowell

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Sargent Shriver

All people have at least their own one theory of an ideal life, but not that which is ideally acceptable to one and all.

Anuj Somany

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons li...

Nelson Mandela

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

An Ideal Husband