Quotes About Idealism

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

I'm a romantic.

You're never in love with anyone the way you are when you're eighteen

It's easy to be an idealist when you drive a Pajero.

And didn't we pledge, pledge, pledge, palms on our chests, every day we lived, pledge to the one nation, the freedom we believed in, didn't we? Fat lot of good.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is.

To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us.

And try to remember how to be an idealist.

Holly's theory about the army, Sharon explained. And what is it? Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

Revolutions inevitably fail, he tells us, because those who come to power are corrupted by it and reject the values and principles they initially embraced.

People rate themselves more favorably on amorphous traits like sensitivity and idealism (at the 73rd percentile, on average) than on relatively straightforward traits like thriftiness and being well-read (48th percentile).

More than ever he longed to be in some world where personal ambition was not the only recognized form of progress—such, perhaps, as might have been the case at some time or other in the silvery globe then shining upon him.

Wußtest du nicht, daß man auch in einer kleinen Stadt ein großer Mann sein kann? Daß man ein Cäsar sein kann an einem mäßigen Handelsplatz an der Ostsee? Freilich, dazu gehört ein wenig Phantasie, ein wenig Idealismus ... und den besaßest du nicht, was du auch von dir selbst gedacht haben magst.

Mais ce qu'il éprouvait, ce qu'il comprenait, et ce dont il jouissait par-dessus tout, [...] c'était l'idéalité triomphante de la musique, de l'art, du cÅ"ur humain, la haute et irréfutable sublimation qu'ils faisaient subir à la vulgaire laideur de la réalité.

Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility.

times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.

I don't go to graduate school. Instead, I move to New York, the city where I naively imagine writers must go.