Definition of Ideal

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Definition of Ideal

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

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mohandas 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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

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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