Ideal Type Person

Famous quotes containing the words ideal, type and/or person:

“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)

“People forget that it is the eye that makes the horizon, and the rounding mind’s eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. . . .”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)