Ideal quotes

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.