A Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.
Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!
Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to which Jesus Christ looked forward. Christ founded no church, established no state, gave practically no laws, organized no government and set up no external authority, but he did seek to write on the hearts of men God's law and make them self-legislating.
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