A man with wealth, with qualifications, with learning, with comfort, but without ideal to me is a course; but a man without learning, without rank, without wealth is an ideal man.
However insigificant the object may be which one loves, which one looks up to, for which one is ready to sacrifice oneself and all one possess, yet that is an ideal
An ideal has a life of its own
An ideal is demonstrated by intense virtue.
There is nothing in life which can make it worthwhile except an ideal.
Both in giving your heart and accepting a heart there is a character, there is honour. The loss of that stability is worse to them than death. All these things, however small and childish they may appear, have great value; they are really the only things worthwhile in life.
Everyone must die one day or another.
It is very difficult to distinguish a false and a true ideal. It is not only difficult but it is impossible, for if something is false then it is as false as it is real, and if it is real, it is as real as it is false.
The best way is just to take as true that which at the time appears true to us. But we should not always discuss it with others, nor try to defend it. We do not know, we do not know if what we find true today will appear false tomorrow for all these terms such as good or bad, right or wrong, virtue or sin, false or true, are relative according to differences of time and space and they change; which means that it depends from what position we see it.
Whatever we consider at the time to be right, just, good, and virtuous, that is the thing we ought to do, but we should not impose or urge what we consider right or true upon others who do not consider it in the same way as we do.
“Extremes in all things are undesirable” – a quote in Sanskrit
One cannot be too good and one cannot be too true. The way to practise this is in one’s everyday life; if one would only keep in mind that what one has said one must do, even if it is a very small thing.
Keeping one’s word is like a promise.
To say “a promise is a promise” might seem somewhat rigid, but it is a promise of one’s word, one’s honour, one’s ideal. As high as one’s ideal, so important is one’s promise.
If there is anything by which one can test a person, what he is, his personality, his greatness, his goodness, it is by his word
No doubt the ideal by which we all feel that we come from the same source and return to the same source is the greatest; for in that ideal we unite with one another, serve one another, and feel responsible for being sincere and true to one another.
Ideal teaches virtues naturally
A man without ideal has no depth.
The true ideal is always hidden behind a man-made ideal which covers it.
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