Quotes About Idealism

And we have seen how Rousseau's insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child for a world that does not.

Golden ages have no shade of grey.

What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.

Why not? If they have merit." Dr. Gaul tossed the stack of questionnaires onto the table. "What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.

What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism.

What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them. 93

Los cerebros jóvenes a veces compensan la falta de experiencia con su idealismo.

So never mind these failures, these little backslidings. Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

On all sides I could hear the creaking of the bedsteads, as the brethren of Blithedale started from slumber, and thrust themselves into their habiliments, all awry, no doubt, in their haste to begin the reformation of the world.

I long for the luxury of being impractical.

En un mundo perfecto todas las madres querrían a sus bebés y los extraños abrirían sus puertas a los no amados. En un mundo perfecto todo sería blanco o negro, bueno o malo, y todos sabrían la diferencia. Pero este no es un mundo perfecto. El problema es la gente que piensa que lo es

I'm just saying that if we stopped fighting for lost causes, where would we be?

La moda, pues, debe considerarse un síntoma del gusto por lo ideal que flota en el cerebro humano por encima de todo cuanto la vida natural deposita en él de grosero, de terrestre y de inmundo, como una deformación sublime de la naturaleza, o más bien como un intento permanente y sucesivo de reformar la naturaleza. También

Idealism couldn't coexist with so many other people's ideals, betrayed in their execution by the tools they'd chosen.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

Somehow I found myself admiring the man for his lack of modesty. For what is modesty but inverted pride? We all think we are first-class people. Modesty forbids us from saying so ourselves though, presumably, not from wanting to hear it from others. Perhaps it was their impatience with this kind of hypocrisy that made men like Nanga successful politicians while starry-eyed idealists strove vaingloriously to bring into politics niceties and delicate refinements that belonged elsewhere.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.