#ideal

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #life

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fashion #oscar-wilde #life

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. ↗

— John Boehner

#enlightenment #fires #freedoms #historic #ideals

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. ↗

— Susan Neiman

#beauty #idealism #philosophy #art

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#could #create #england #fire #georgians

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#friendships #ideals #ours #united

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#because #children #fell #got #had

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. ↗

— Claude McKay

#based #castle #foundation #idealism #like

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#curse #get #idealism #into #materialism

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. ↗

— Golda Meir

#ideals #most #realistic #regime #soviet