Quotes About Realism

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

"The best of men are just men at best.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.

What's the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand.

serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

You are totally overromanticizing dirt.

Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

Eu sou o cínico da família. E os cínicos enxergam o óbvio.

We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

For how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case

Her zaman iyi olmaya çal??an biri, iyi olmayan çok say?da insan?n aras?nda bir y?k?nt? olmaya mahkumdur.

It is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation

Machiavelli was no facile phrasemonger; the conditions under which he wrote

L'homme qui en toutes choses veut faire profession de bonté se ruine inéluctablement parmi tant d'hommes qui n'ont aucune bonté.

Lo que considera un error es que la política se piense idealizándola contra la evidencia empírica a costa de supeditarla rígidamente a las normas y valores cristianos.

Die Menschen sind undankbar, unbeständig, heuchlerisch, furchtsam und eigennützig.

Ludzie b?d? zawsze dla ciebie ?li, je?eli konieczno?? nie zmusi ich do tego, by byli dobrzy

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince) on the one hand and republicanism (Discourses on Livy) on the other. Source: Wikipedia