I Quotes
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“Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.”
Source: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good
“Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)
“Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”
Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
“Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.”
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
“Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.”
“Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.”
“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”
“Ideals are the world's masters.”
“Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.”
Source: A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer
“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.”
Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals
“Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.”
“Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.”
“Ideals make reason inaccessible.”
“Ideals should be believed, loved and held above all else.”
“Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.”
“Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.”
“Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.”
“Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.”
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
“Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.”
“Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.”
“Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.”
“Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“Ideas alone will not change the world, but deeds will.”
“Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.”
“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
“Ideas and people come from those who came before them. By a simple cause and effect, things get passed down like water in the river of time.”
“Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.”
“Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.”
“Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.”
“Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.”
Source: Sommer: Words
“Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.”
“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.”
“Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that you may not come up with any new ones”
“Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.”
“Ideas are always more important than money.”
“Ideas are being described in this book as free-floating entities that thrive in a great many environments.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.”
“Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?”
“Ideas are bulletproof.”
“Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.”
“Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!”