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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism,… — Aldous Huxley
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today. — Ayn Rand
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to… — Robert Hughes
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life sucks, and then you die... — Stephenie Meyer
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. — Winston Churchill
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. — Margaret Atwood
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In… — Jon Krakauer
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman… — Judith Martin
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to… — Thomas Sowell
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death — Anais Nin
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve… — Philip Roth
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened.… — Timothy Keller
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the… — Jim Butcher
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their… — Theodore Roosevelt
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals.… — Timothy Keller
Mort drove one of those little hybrid cars that, when not running on gasoline, was fueled by idealism. It was made out of crepe paper… — Jim Butcher

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