Famous quotes containing the word ideal:
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering, and Divinity departing. You are welcome to try your experiments, and, if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce, of nothing but God will expel God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)