Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ideals are the world's masters.
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.
Our ideals are our better selves.
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
We know the ideal isn't where the action is.
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
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