Quotes about Idealism

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Votes: 8

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. Votes: 7

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. Votes: 6

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. Votes: 6

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. Votes: 4

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Votes: 4

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Votes: 4

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Votes: 4

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. Votes: 4

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. Votes: 4

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. Votes: 4

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. Votes: 4

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. Votes: 4

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. Votes: 4

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong. Votes: 4

Leadership is Idealism in Action. Votes: 3

Idealism has devolved into madness. Votes: 3

Idealism is the highest form of reason. Votes: 3

Idealism and realism meet in the actual. Votes: 3

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. Votes: 3

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. Votes: 3

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. Votes: 3

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity. Votes: 3

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death Votes: 3

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself. Votes: 3

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination. Votes: 3

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' Votes: 3

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. Votes: 3

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense. Votes: 3

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones. Votes: 3

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom Votes: 3

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly. Votes: 3

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations. Votes: 3

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay. Votes: 3

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. Votes: 3

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Votes: 3

Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy! Votes: 3

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. Votes: 3

Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to understand the limitation of his idea and believes that the real world can be converted into the world of his idea. Votes: 3

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Votes: 2

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. Votes: 2

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Votes: 2

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. Votes: 2

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. Votes: 2

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. Votes: 2

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. Votes: 2

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. Votes: 2

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. Votes: 2

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. Votes: 2

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . Votes: 2

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away. Votes: 2

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. Votes: 2

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. Votes: 2

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy. Votes: 2

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. Votes: 2

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation. Votes: 2

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Votes: 2

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. Votes: 2

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. Votes: 2

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory? Votes: 2

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. Votes: 2

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. Votes: 2

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard. Votes: 2

For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. Votes: 2

God save me from idealists. Votes: 1

I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism. Votes: 1

I prefer true over happy now. Votes: 1

Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside. Votes: 1

A realist is a slave to reality. Votes: 1

In reality the universe has no geometry. Votes: 1

Art is where our idealism can live. Votes: 1

Reality is what people who lack vision see. Votes: 1

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment. Votes: 1

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas. Votes: 1

People change, though, especially after they are dead. Votes: 1

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice. Votes: 1

Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda. Votes: 1

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. Votes: 1

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. Votes: 1

Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility. Votes: 1

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. Votes: 1

From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego. Votes: 1

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. Votes: 1

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. Votes: 1

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. Votes: 1

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off Votes: 1

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams. Votes: 1

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. Votes: 1

It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with. Votes: 1

the taste of death does not comes from the recipe of cowardness Votes: 1

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. Votes: 1

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. Votes: 1

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. Votes: 1

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. Votes: 1

What's the bee in your bonnet? Seems to be some kind of idealism. Votes: 1

In attaining our ideals,our means should be as pure as the end! Votes: 1

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Votes: 1

Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world. Votes: 1

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. Votes: 1

How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. Votes: 1

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something. Votes: 1

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. Votes: 1

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English. Votes: 1

Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee. Votes: 1

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. Votes: 1

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. Votes: 1

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. Votes: 1

Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta. Votes: 1

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent... Votes: 1

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. Votes: 1

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. Votes: 1

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. Votes: 1

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson Votes: 1

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. Votes: 1

A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her. Votes: 1

My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me. Votes: 1

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect. Votes: 1

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. Votes: 1

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. Votes: 1

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. Votes: 1

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. Votes: 1

It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor Votes: 1

What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday. Votes: 1

When that time come, nobody will care for each other.You don't have to prove me wrong, you'll need that energy. Votes: 1

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. Votes: 1

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order. Votes: 1

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. Votes: 1

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. Votes: 1

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion. Votes: 1

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. Votes: 1

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military. Votes: 1

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. Votes: 1

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. Votes: 1

Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden. Votes: 1

He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize. Votes: 1

Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. Votes: 1

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. Votes: 1

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. Votes: 1

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being. Votes: 1

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies. Votes: 1

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force Votes: 1

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us. Votes: 1

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled. Votes: 1

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well. Votes: 1

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. Votes: 1

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. Votes: 1

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation. Votes: 1

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. Votes: 1

Plato understood love as a powerful engine that can destroy mankind or turn us to the good. Christ made that turn possible, and Spenser shows what can be done in the human soul if we take it. Votes: 1

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. Votes: 1

If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. Votes: 1

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition. Votes: 1

Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own. Votes: 1

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home. Votes: 1

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance. Votes: 1

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one Votes: 1

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy. Votes: 1

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.''Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race. Votes: 1

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind. Votes: 1

The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows. Votes: 1

A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth, which is the mother of history the preserver of great actions, the enemy of oblivion, the witness of the past, the director of the future. Votes: 1

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. Votes: 1

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics. Votes: 1

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek. Votes: 1

He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed that ... being willing to fight for his country and the liberty it represented, would make some small difference. ... His idealism was one of the casualties of the carnage [of Verdun]. Votes: 1

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values? Votes: 1

The enemy of idealism is zealotry. Votes: 0

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism. Votes: 0

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. Votes: 0

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Votes: 0

There is no realism without an element of idealism. Votes: 0

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism. Votes: 0

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. Votes: 0

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism. Votes: 0

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge. Votes: 0

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left. Votes: 0

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. Votes: 0

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. Votes: 0

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place. Votes: 0

It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac. Votes: 0

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. Votes: 0

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. Votes: 0

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. Votes: 0

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. Votes: 0

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? Votes: 0

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness Votes: 0

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. Votes: 0

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. Votes: 0

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Votes: 0

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. Votes: 0

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. Votes: 0

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. Votes: 0

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. Votes: 0

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. Votes: 0

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism Votes: 0

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. Votes: 0

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be. Votes: 0

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. Votes: 0

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. Votes: 0

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism. Votes: 0

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. Votes: 0

The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit. Votes: 0

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. Votes: 0

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. Votes: 0

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. Votes: 0

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. Votes: 0

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. Votes: 0

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order. Votes: 0

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism. Votes: 0

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results. Votes: 0

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. Votes: 0

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare Votes: 0

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. Votes: 0

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! Votes: 0

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism. Votes: 0

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. Votes: 0

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting. Votes: 0

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? Votes: 0

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. Votes: 0

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. Votes: 0

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality. Votes: 0

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. Votes: 0

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation. Votes: 0

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. Votes: 0

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long. Votes: 0

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process. Votes: 0

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. Votes: 0

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. Votes: 0

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power... Votes: 0

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Votes: 0

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away. Votes: 0

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. Votes: 0

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. Votes: 0

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere. Votes: 0

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. Votes: 0

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Votes: 0

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism. Votes: 0

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood. Votes: 0

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. Votes: 0

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman. Votes: 0

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. Votes: 0

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic. Votes: 0

Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind. Votes: 0

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. Votes: 0

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own. Votes: 0

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. Votes: 0

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence. Votes: 0

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. Votes: 0

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. Votes: 0

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? Votes: 0

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing. Votes: 0

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. Votes: 0

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible. Votes: 0

Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you. Votes: 0

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so. Votes: 0

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations. Votes: 0

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. Votes: 0

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited. Votes: 0

I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced. Votes: 0

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals. Votes: 0

I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles. Votes: 0

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it. Votes: 0

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned. Votes: 0

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. Votes: 0

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never. Votes: 0

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism. Votes: 0

In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism. Votes: 0

Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling themselves into wasteful protests against the so-called Establishment. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something. Votes: 0

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. Votes: 0

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism. Votes: 0

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. Votes: 0