Quote by Jorge Luis Borges Download Open image ““Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality”” — Jorge Luis Borges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture” — James Davison Hunter 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 can truly… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of… — E.R. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
“[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
