Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.
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.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
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