#ideal

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. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. ↗