Quotes About Idealism

Il compromesso è considerato come una mancanza di integrità, di dirittura morale, di consistenza, di onestà. Il compromesso puzza, è disonesto. Non nel mio vocabolario. Nel mio mondo, la parola compromesso è sinonimo di vita. E dove c'è vita ci sono compromessi. Il contrario di compromesso non è integrità e nemmeno idealismo e nemmeno determinazione o devozione. Il contrario di compromesso è fanatismo.

Asombra que yo no haya abandonado aún todas mis esperanzas, puesto que parecen absurdas e irrealizables. Sin embargo, me aferro a ellas a pesar de todo, porque sigo creyendo en la bondad innata del hombre.

in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.....

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

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: 'Excuse me, it was all a dream,' and by that time I may have found one who will say: 'Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.

The root of all dissention between friends is the quality of idealism contained in it.

Both of us had one inviolate self we never gave. It was our dreaming self. Now we have invaded this world in each other. She is too rich to be fully known in a few days. She says I am too rich for her. […] Her idealism is so demanding. It awes me. With her I feel timelessness.

We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything in the world-the mind, the body, the future, even the last lonely hour it has-it will not sacrifice itself.

Apparently, the world was perfect in 1958.

Because of the city upon a hill sound bite, A Model of Christian Charity is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

What was the matter that pureness of feeling couldn't be kept up? I see I met those writers in the big book of utopias at a peculiar time. In those utopias, set up by hopes and art, how could you overlook the part of nature or be sure you could keep the feelings up?

Tražiti ispunjenje vlastitih težnji u drugome, u me?usobnim odnosima, ženska je igra. A muškarac koji bira od žene do žene, premda u srcu osje?a bol zbog idealizma, zbog želje za ?istom ljubavi, ušao je u žensko carstvo.

Wait a minute, though: Sammler denied himself the privilege of the high-principled intellectual who must always be applying the purest standards and thumping the rest of his species on the head. When he tried to imagine a just social order, he could not do it. A non-corrupt society? He could not do that either. There were no revolutions that he could remember which had not been made for justice, freedom, and pure goodness. Their last state was always more nihilistic than the first.

Another word on the subject of "the idealism of theology." In fact, traditional theology has not only spoken of the scapegoat, but the texts remain in a certain manner structured by the scapegoat, as you have shown! Will a future theology escape this fate entirely?

Si la prudencia pudiese conciliarse con la juventud, si pudiesen existir repúblicas sin virtud alguna, ¡cuán pronto vería el mundo cumplidos sus altos destinos!

Naša tragedija ne leži u životu, nego u žudnji za savršenstvom ne?eg nesavršenog,

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

The stubbornness of an idealist; and the soul of a street fighter

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

When Star Trek is hitting its stride and doing what it's supposed to do, it can be very provocative, but because it's reaching so high and trying to live up to its own expectations, it fails more than most shows.