Idealism Quotes - Page 11

• I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of Templeton, made me into an insane anxious person. I didn't sleep at night. I ended up sleeping all day. In a strange way I felt like the world was going to end. I found myself so deeply depressed at times that I started to read about happiness, and that took me into books about idealism and utopianism. Reading books about people who tried to build utopian societies of different kinds gave me a kind of lift.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Reading, Sleep

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• Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.

  Douglas Hyde

  People, Complaining, Use

  Douglas Hyde (1994). “Dedication and Leadership”, p.14, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• 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.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Mean, Nihilism

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

  Allen W. Wood

  Sides, Philosopher, Tradition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

  Amos Oz

  Integrity, Opposites, Compromise

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism.

  St. Lucia

  Fire, Wind, Romance

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Reality, Wish

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Future, Fighting

  "The Romantic Manifesto". Book by Ayn Rand, 1969.

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• The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

  Josiah Royce

  Self, Giving, Firsts

  Josiah Royce (1900). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Order, Roots, Chaos

  William Irwin Thompson (1977). “Evil and world order”

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• Over the past decades...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

  Life, Change, Past

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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Belief, Trouble, Capacity

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• The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Boys, Community

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.64, Grove Press

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• If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

  Prince Charles

  Crush, Clever, Children

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• The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Curious, Idealist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Book, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Men

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

  Friedrich von Bernhardi

  War, Blessing, Law

  Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”

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• Idealism is the highest form of reason.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Reason, Form, Highest

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• By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Justice, Asking

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• 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

  Years, America, Energy

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• Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

  Danny Strong

  Winning, Election, Idealism And Realism

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• If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Lying, Omission, Important

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