Quotes About Idealism

When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Those who count on the good will of mankind display a delirious, idealistic optimism. Centuries of history, despite the facts, have not been able to convince them of the contrary; reason certainly will not change them. But they are so far removed from reality that their opinion is negligible.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

to burn itself on a funeral pyre and then rise up from its own ashes. Under the drawing, Owen had written: "OFTEN A SYMBOL OF REBORN IDEALISM, OR HOPE—OR AN EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY." And

You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.

You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

When two people fall in love,all they can think about is how to build a perfect world around them.

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair." — Callum McGregor

What was knowledge, what was truth, beauty, love, idealism, philosophy, or religion when compared to man's desire to control an infinitesimal spot in the fields of Cosmos for an inestimably minute fragment of time?

Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism.

El col·lapse d'unes esperances antigues i juvenils, d'una il·lusió en darrer terme desinteressada, havia matat en ell tota vel·leïtat de rebeldia.

One day, I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

I'm never going to fall in love with the idea of someone again.

I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

they were determined to restore all of them to this imagined pristine state.