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Ideal Quotes


"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."


"These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with."



"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."


"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."



"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."


"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."


"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
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