Quotes About Idealism

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash-it makes one vomit.

God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash—it makes one vomit.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

A vjerovali su još i u nešto što se zvalo Raj;no unato? toga pili su goleme koli?ine alkohola.

The unpleasantness of life in the utopia

is the havoc which ensues when a man with an idealistic misconception of life born of a cloistered and emotionally deprived upbringing experiences the full, sensual impact of human passion.

How are you making utopia sound like Hell on Earth?

T. S. Eliot memorably described it, an effort at 'dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good'.

Por lo tanto, la Teoría Sintérgica se inscribe dentro de una tradición monista-idealista, la cual solamente acepta una realidad, la de la conciencia en todos sus posibles niveles.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

It's just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of our youthful years.

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream

Absorbed in the single idea of being beloved, her imagination soared into the regions of romantic bliss, and bore her high above the possibility of evil.

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.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

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