Idealism Quotes - Page 2

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Don't look back, you can never look back

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.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

The actual well seen is ideal.

Leadership is Idealism in Action.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Happiness too is inevitable.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around. Poetry is not going to reach the numbers of people by which we commonly consider a large audience. It just isn't a stadium-filler. It could still galvanize people during a crisis, but let's just say there are two points at which poetry is indispensable to people - at the point of love and the point of death. I'll second that emotion.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Without a vision the people perish.

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.