Quotes About Idealism

I felt sympathy for her but not too much. Idealism dies hard with everybody.

Idealism dies hard with everybody.

It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.

who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.

There's a real idealism that you have to indulge to think that people in New Orleans were now going to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. There were no bootstraps.

When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.

Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where ordinary humans live.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

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

If anything, the people who moved to Jonestown should be remembered as noble idealists. They wanted to create a better, more equitable, society. They wanted their kids to be free of violence and racism. They rejected sexist gender roles. They believed in a dream. How terribly they were betrayed.

E]r gibt uns das Gefühl, weniger einsam zu sein in dieser Sackgasse im Dienste der Großen-Eitelkeit-Idealismus-Realismus-Spiritualismus-Materialismus des Abendlandes, G.m.b.H.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

Here, in the foyer of the League of Nations, Edith Campbell Berry stands.

This passage indicates the step that Feuerbach has taken from idealism to materialism. He formulates the new thesis with a precision that points forward to Marx, when he says that it is not thought which determines being but, on the contrary, social being which determines the consciousness of men.

We're all idealists, all materialists; and the final judgment or label is simply a matter of ideology, or, if you prefer, of political commitment.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Heroism is a myth you tell idealistic young people—specifically when you want them to go bleed for you.

There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.

We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now.They were corrupt then.

It has to do with our makeup. Most men, but not all, are realists. Whereas most women are idealists. Most men are practical, sensible

I've seen the stupidities committed in the name of idealism and abstract thinking.

Thus we kept on like true idealists, rejecting the evidence of our senses