Quotes About Idealism

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.

The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.

he had a way of standing and looking into the distance like he really believed in something

Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.