The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.