Top 37 Idealization Of The Past Quotes
#1. Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
Charles Baudelaire
#2. I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#3. This idealization of clinical perfection prevents us from being in the moment. It stops us from appreciating our experience as beautiful despite the "flaws" because, deep down, we are so ashamed of ourselves for not living up to these expectations of perfection that we can barely breathe. In
Robin Elizabeth
#4. Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.
Paula Gunn Allen
#5. Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
Doron Zeilberger
#6. Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
Edmund White
#7. Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.
Karen Horney
#9. Sure, but don't expect great observations. Mostly I just looked for dirty pictures hidden within the artwork. Did you know Monet put a boob in all his paintings? Apples and Grapes - get it? I mean, come on. The guy was a horn-dog.
Penny Reid
#10. One day reach idealization;
after all, it's the journey, not the destination.
David Rakoff
#11. It needed the genius of the Tang dynasty to emancipate Tea from its crude state and lead to its final idealization.
Okakura Kakuzo
#13. I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively
because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.
Alice Miller
#14. Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
Okakura Kakuzo
#15. The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
Charles Eastman
#16. I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down ... How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?
Roman Payne
#17. I am not especially unsophisticated about people, and yet I am so inclined to idealize and idolize the few that I am really attached to. I should know better...
Harry Haskell
#18. In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
Marshall McLuhan
#19. There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
Dustin Moskovitz
#20. It suddenly occurred to Harry how odd this would look if a Muggle were to walk up here now ... nine people, two grown men, clutching this manky old boot in the semi-darkness, waiting ...
J.K. Rowling
#21. It will always be a fact that the woman is the person one idealizes, also the person who wishes his idealization.
Gaston Bachelard
#22. Driving is so dangerous I haven't got the guts to do it sober.
Joseph Hansen
#24. You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.
Sudhir Kakar
#25. Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Gaston Bachelard
#26. It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr
#27. Could love feel differently depending on the person you loved?
Sandra Owens
#28. There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
Gene Simmons
#29. Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. WHEN I LOOK UP again, the paintings in my foyer, my Madonnas, bring a mirthless smile to my lips. The idealization of motherhood. All of them gazing at their infants, or staring inauspiciously down at me.
E.L. James
#31. The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
John Dewey
#32. Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Nicolas Chamfort
#33. Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
Ashim Shanker
#34. If your flesh is not submitted to you, then it will defeat power, anointing, and talent
Sunday Adelaja
#35. [The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
Michael Warner
#36. Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Paul Klee
#37. When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
