It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. — Hugh Hefner 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
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place. — Sung Kang 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
I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism.… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented —… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? — James Carville Copy Share Image
