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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. -- Claude McKay
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. -- Danny Strong
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. -- Bertrand Russell
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. -- Aldous Huxley
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. -- Carl Jung
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. -- Jacques Barzun
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. -- Oscar Wilde
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. -- Karl Kraus
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. -- Richard Stallman
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. -- H. L. Mencken
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong. -- Bono
Leadership is Idealism in Action. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Idealism has devolved into madness. -- Ralph Peters
Idealism and realism meet in the actual. -- Mary Parker Follett
Idealism is the highest form of reason. -- John Charles Polanyi
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. -- Richard M. Nixon
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. -- Sidney Hook
Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death -- Anais Nin
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. -- Richard M. Nixon
Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself. -- Dorothy Day
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination. -- Lewis Mumford
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' -- Matthew Stewart
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. -- Timothy Noah
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense. -- George Friedman
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Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom -- Lin Yutang
Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly. -- Dan B. Allender
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations. -- Orhan Pamuk
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay. -- Howard Stringer
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. -- Dick Morris
Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy! -- Eça De Queirós
Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to understand the limitation of his idea and believes that the real world can be converted into the world of his idea. -- Awdhesh Singh
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. -- Herbert Hoover
It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. -- Stephen Kinzer
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. -- Phillips Brooks
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. -- Calvin Coolidge
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. -- Pearl S. Buck
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. -- John Buchanan Robinson
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. -- Shirley Chisholm
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. -- Don Henley
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. -- Billy Corgan
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . -- Richard Schmid
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. -- Lorrie Moore
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -- John Foster Dulles
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. -- Thomas Sowell
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy. -- Jean Helion
Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. -- Anita Roddick
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation. -- Herbert Read
Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory? -- Pearl S. Buck
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. -- D. H. Lawrence
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. -- Christopher Dawson
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. -- Richard M. Nixon
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. -- Alfred North Whitehead
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. -- Rosa Luxemburg
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. -- Jerry Saltz
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard. -- Norman Rockwell
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. -- Alex Berenson
God save me from idealists. -- Jim Butcher
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism. -- Toba Beta
I prefer true over happy now. -- Julianna Baggott
Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside. -- Damon Suede
A realist is a slave to reality. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In reality the universe has no geometry. -- Kedar Joshi
Art is where our idealism can live. -- Scott Neuffer
Reality is what people who lack vision see. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment. -- Douglas G. Brinkley
The real battlefield is the realm of ideas. -- Bryant McGill
People change, though, especially after they are dead. -- Margaret Atwood
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice. -- Richard Brookhiser
Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda. -- Tan Malaka
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. -- Clarence Day
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. -- Ayn Rand
Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility. -- Thomas Pynchon
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. -- Jonathan Franzen
From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego. -- Bertrand Russell
The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. -- Marty Rubin
A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. -- George Carlin
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off -- Eric Bogosian
She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams. -- Robert K. Massie
In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. -- Bruce Crown
It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with. -- Joseph Bottum
the taste of death does not comes from the recipe of cowardness -- Rishi Mishra
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. -- Alain de Botton
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. -- Allen Tate
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. -- Bauvard
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. -- Sinclair Lewis
What's the bee in your bonnet? Seems to be some kind of idealism. -- Robert Musil
In attaining our ideals,our means should be as pure as the end! -- Rajendra Prasad
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? -- Edith Wharton
Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world. -- Diana Peterfreund
I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. -- Joy Davidman
How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love. -- Gustave Flaubert
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. -- Mike Klepper
Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English. -- Mark Dery
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee. -- A.J. Darkholme
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means. -- William Hazlitt
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. -- Criss Jami
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. --
Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta. -- Putu Wijaya
the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent... -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. -- Charles Dickens
For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ron Suskind
Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. -- Jo Walton
A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her. -- Bauvard
My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me. -- Chronis Missios
The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect. -- George F. Will
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. -- Susan Neiman
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. -- Jon Stewart
The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. -- Margaret MacMillan

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