Quotes About Idealism

Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality

Según la doctrina idealista, los verbos vivir y soñar son rigurosamente sinónimos.

Century upon century of idealism could hardly have failed to influence reality.

He had recorded in canto 8 how Plato the Idealist 'went to Dionysius of Syracuse | Because he had observed that tyrants | Were most efficient in all that they set their hands to'; but had he taken the point of the story, that Plato found 'he was unable to persuade Dionysius to any amelioration'?

There is a saying, drawn from the ages of Old Earth and written by a council of Ancient Merican kings, that all men were created equal. I'd often wondered if the words sounded as false and idealistic to those men's ears as they did to mine. Truly, humanity has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Nonetheless, he is a boy. Despite his talents, a boy. And a boy is more idealistic than a man, and high ideals in the hands of children can be as dangerous as weapons. He thought he was in the right, and because he thought he was in the right, he thought there would be an exception. That's that.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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.

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

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

Bisogna essere eroici per abitare in tempi così diversi da quelli del proprio modello: ma Don Chisciotte, per l'appunto, era un eroe.

A sus veintisiete añitos, sin la menor experiencia laboral -no digamos empresarial o administrativa-. puesto que no había trabajado un minuto de su vida, Castro 'sabe' cómo resolver en un abrir y cerrar de ojos el problema de la vivienda, de la salud, de la industrialización, de la instantánea creación de riquezas.

Indahnya dunia ini jika pemuda masih tahu perjuangan!

It was only in the idealistic dreams of H.G. Wells that people became nicer as they acquired wealth.

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.

I was really looking for a sense of purpose, a sense of community. I guess you could say that made me vulnerable, but I think those are good things to want. More so than being naive, I would say I was extremely idealistic, and that's something Nxivm exploited.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.