"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished" – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Marriage quotes

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished" – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7May2010 In : Marriage quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.AbsenceQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.GeniusQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.Ideals and IdealismQuotations by Francis Herbert Hedge

"This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal." - Lord Byron

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