“...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.” — Mark Dery Copy Share Image
“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I’m sure) forgot… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.” — A.J. Darkholme Copy Share Image
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“You were so beautiful when you were young. So much idealism it was inspiring.” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
