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
The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of… — Norman Rockwell 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
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The state of being prosperous is equivalent to labor and hard work put in. Be Persistent! Be A Hustler!” — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
