I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
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… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from,… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
“What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It seems probable that he was trying to yoke the fractious horses of his dream, to straddle transcendental idealism and scientific empiricism,” — Randall Fuller Copy Share Image
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
One day s0meone asked me, what kind 0f pers0n d0 I need? I just smiled and said... s0meonE n0t str0ng... not st0ng… — Meggy Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“What she tried to label honesty in his candour was probably only a cynical defiance of the laws of right and wrong.” — Saki Copy Share Image
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making… — Bono Copy Share Image
