Alive Quote by George Santayana

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

— Henri Bergson

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

— Mary Parker Follett

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale…

— Satish Kumar

“A realist is a man of action, because he does not dwell too much on reason when the results or the end will not…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Real man don't need to be told how real is. His words reflect on his actions.

— AlexGman

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason,…

— David Hume