Quotes About Idealism

Usually when you practice zazen, you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill. But as I have often said, this is absurd. When you are idealistic, you have some gaining idea within yourself; by the time you attain your ideal or goal, your gaining idea will create another ideal.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.

Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

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

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Think of this person as the Obi-Wan Kenobi who always seems to produce the right answer when the occasion calls for it, but otherwise remains quite reserved. On the flip side, INFJ could be the one leading new projects in Research and Development, imagining fantastic new products and services but sometimes failing to see real world obstacles which prevent the idea from becoming viable. Office INFJ aims to make the world a better place in all cases

There is, it is true, an idealistic theory according to which democracy is the best form of government. I think myself that this theory is true. But there is no department of practical politics where idealistic theories are strong enough to cause great changes; when great changes occur, the theories which justify them are always a camouflage for passion. And the passion that has given driving force to democratic theories is undoubtedly the passion of envy.

there is no such thing as matter at all, and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ideas. Hylas

We might state the argument by which [idealists] support their view in some such way as this: 'Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist.

But in the 'nineties young men desired something more sweeping and passionate, more bold and less bland.

very many philosophers, perhaps a majority, have held that there is nothing real except minds and their ideas. Such philosophers are called 'idealists'.

'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

All cynics are disappointed idealists.

Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

también los idealistas aciertan de vez en cuando.

But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on.

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