“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
“Ideal idea is an identity that is the identity of ideologue!”
“It is true that a man (a silly man) might make change itself his object or ideal. But as an ideal, change itself becomes unchangeable. If the change-worshipper wishes to estimate his own progress, he must be sternly loyal to the ideal of change; he must not begin to flirt gaily with the ideal of monotony. Progress itself cannot progress”
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal”
“Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.”