Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us. — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with:… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.” — Todd Garlington 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
Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger 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
“It is prudent to analyze the dynamics of innovations and its sustainable transition.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth 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
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“ Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
