The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails." — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism. — David Means Copy Share Image
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All human beings are vines. But especially the idealist. He is a vine, and he needs to clutch and climb. And he… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music.… — Nikolai Grozni Copy Share Image
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“On this rock we had built our church. We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implications of science, our socialism… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In every way, we inhabit the Noosphere, the domain of nous, of mind. This cosmic Noosphere is evolving. Powerful minds are shaping… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
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