For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something. — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I have put pragmatism ahead of idealism and understand that concessions are necessary in a negotiation. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It seems probable that he was trying to yoke the fractious horses of his dream, to straddle transcendental idealism and scientific empiricism,” — Randall Fuller Copy Share Image
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making… — Bono Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“Idealism and naiveté were youthful cousins. Foresight and the considerations of age and experience often brought inaction, compromise, second-guessing; the ability to… — Brent Hayward Copy Share Image
Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
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 real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
