Idealism Quotes

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--...

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine ...

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qual...

Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’...

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the...

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But t...

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence...

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we bel...

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions,...

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil...

You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, t...

They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw a...

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary...

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, o...

See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changi...

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offer...

In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea...

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing ...

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she ...

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History know...

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of li...

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dar...

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned w...

Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the intern...

I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothin...

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must ...

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultifi...

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it make...

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent ...

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the...

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There mu...

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know...

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...