Idealism Quotes

• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

  Phillips Brooks

  Blood, Life Is, Ideal Life

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.35

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• An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Helping Others, People

  "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1948.

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• I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

  Carl Sandburg

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Incidentals (1907) p. 8

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• We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Live And Let Live, Ideals

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fate, Form, Idealist

  Marriage and Morals ch. 7 (1929)

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• You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

  Jon Stewart

  Perfect, Use, Realizing

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• 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

  Reality, Soul, Realism

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• Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Atheism, Use

  "The Wild Duck".

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• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

  Bono

  Dream, Strong, Real

  "My wish: Three actions for Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2005.

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• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Reality, Deviousness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

  John Galsworthy

  Inspirational, Distance, Problem

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• Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

  Jacques Barzun

  Spring, Ideas, Feelings

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  Karl Kraus

  Loss, Style, Something New

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• Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Dying, Killing

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Hope, Motivation, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Jun 25, 2013

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• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Disappointment, Humor

  "A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist" by Carol Smaldino, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Tyrants, Idealism And Realism, Ideals

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Silence, Presidential, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Empty, Idealism And Realism

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• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, World, Maps

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Power, Hatred, Idealism And Realism

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.478, Psychology Press

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• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  High Heels, Tiptoes, Idealist

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