idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the… — Herbert Hoover 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
“She has the flames of passion emanating from deep withing her soul. She has the embers of idealism burning in her heart!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
“It's not the no. of followers that determine Ur Greatness, when Jesus Christ set for his journey he had only 12 of it.” — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I… — Bono Copy Share Image
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of… — John Grisham 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
“You can't do anything about the Past, life doesn't give you Undo Option. Live Now! Hence you need not that Option.” — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
“When that time come, nobody will care for each other. You don't have to prove me wrong, you'll need that energy.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay.… — Shere Hite 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
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
“Discussing ideas can potentially increase the kinetic energy of ideas to a point where ideas turn into innovation.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
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
“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on… — Alistair Cooke 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
“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
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of… — Seth Copy Share Image
“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
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