Idealism Quotes - Page 3

• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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• Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Thinking, Enlightenment

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 19, 2013

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• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

  John Galsworthy

  Inspirational, Distance, Problem

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• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Tyrants, Idealism And Realism, Ideals

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  High Heels, Tiptoes, Idealist

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• Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Empty, Idealism And Realism

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• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, World, Maps

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Hope, Motivation, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Jun 25, 2013

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• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Dying, Killing

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Reality, Deviousness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Silence, Presidential, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Loss, Style, Something New

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• Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

  Jacques Barzun

  Spring, Ideas, Feelings

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• You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

  Jon Stewart

  Perfect, Use, Realizing

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• Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Soul, Realism

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• In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

  Fred Reed

  School, Civilization, Ideas

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• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Different, Amor

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

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• 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

  Self, Profound, Understanding

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• Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Intelligent, Ideas, People

  "Random thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.jewishworldreview.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

  Don Henley

  Moving, Inspire, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Selfish, War, Care

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• There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

  Thomas Moore

  Environmental, Becoming, Culture

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