The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism. — David Means Copy Share Image
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. — Friedrich von Bernhardi Copy Share Image
A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting. — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the… — Eca De Queiroz Copy Share Image
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in… — William James 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
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails." — Yuri Orlov Copy Share Image
“Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image