Idealism Quotes - Page 9

• The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dream, Dna, Radio Waves

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.95, Penguin

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• Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

  George Berkeley

  God, Stars, Fall

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.134, 谷月社

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• There is no realism without an element of idealism.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Elements, Realism

  "Obama Is Like a Chess Player". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2009.

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• I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.

  Phillip Sandifer

  Thinking, Two Sides, Historical

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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Belief, Ethical, Humans

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.396, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Flames, Sparks, Individual

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• I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just um sort of carried over into my feelings about joining the army.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Religious, Army, Years

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• Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

  Lauren Groff

  Broken, Historical, Eras

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Expression, World

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• Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Character, Belief, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

  James Carville

  Idealism And Realism, Ifs

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• Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Achievement, Republic

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.

  Michael Arditti

  Pain, Smart, Believe

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• We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Community, Together

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• Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Mind, Males

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Men, Joining

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• . . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Courage, Truth, Bravery

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• I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

  Arthur Scargill

  Achieve, Idealist

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• If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Oxygen, Interesting

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

  Oliver Stone

  Cancer, Thinking, Healthy

  "Oliver Stone Talks SAVAGES, the Unconventional Ending, and the Hypothetical Fiction of Cartels". Press conference, collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Sight, Two

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• We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Honor, Charity, Want

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• 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?

  Erich Segal

  Heroism, Quiet, Knows

  Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.517, Bantam

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