Ideal
Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
Imaginary.
A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
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Ideal Quotations
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Jose Rizal
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire
Ideal Translations
ideal in Afrikaans is ideaal
ideal in Dutch is ideaal
ideal in German is ideal, vorbildlich, Ideal
ideal in Italian is ideale
ideal in Norwegian is forbilde, ideell
ideal in Spanish is ideal
ideal in Swedish is ideal, idealisk
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