Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination."
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Ideals
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Emma Goldman
Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
"Life without an ideal is spiritual death."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices."
Boris Johnson
Politician, Journalist
"My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better."
Lewis Baltz
Photographer
"The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art."
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"Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments."
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"Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect."
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"Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal."
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"The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate."
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"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower."
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"The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible."
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"There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal."
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"Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man."
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"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique."
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"What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?"
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"My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar."
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"Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal."
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"I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal."
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"If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point."
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"All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods."
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"I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women."
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"The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."
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"Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously."
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"Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal."
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"Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."
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