An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is prudent to analyze the dynamics of innovations and its sustainable transition.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image
The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“If idealism could protect each country, there wouldn't be immigrants.” — Mr. Morning 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
“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living -… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? — Anton Chekhov 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
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt… — Minnie Maddern Fiske 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
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 realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are… — Mary C. Lamia Copy Share Image
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf Copy Share Image
“On this rock we had built our church. We had founded our idealism on the most nihilistic implications of science, our socialism… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“In every way, we inhabit the Noosphere, the domain of nous, of mind. This cosmic Noosphere is evolving. Powerful minds are shaping… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
