Idealism Quotes - Page 13

• Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Realism, Immoral

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• 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

  Art, Temptation, Desire

  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Technology, Hatred, Sadism

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• What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

  Os Guinness

  Blood, Sloth, Mind

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.142, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pain, Lying, Compassion

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• I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.

  Margot Kidder

  Passion, Optimism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wish, Recollection

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• Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Knowing, People

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• But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Soul, Hope And Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.101, Penguin

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• The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

  Adi Da

  Religious, League, Done

  Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

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• Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.

  Timothy Morton

  Revenge, Cells, Years

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• Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Keys, Pragmatism, Effective Leadership

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• The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Generosity, Church, Needs

  "Homily of his Holiness Benedict XVI". Holy Mass by Pope Benedict XVI for the 23rd World Youth Day at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  Max Lerner

  Ambition, Vanity, Spy

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

  Golda Meir

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

  Dorothy Day

  Curiosity, Trying, Goodness

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• idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Distance, Passion, Light

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

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• The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Two, Vision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism.

  St. Lucia

  Fire, Wind, Romance

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

  Allen W. Wood

  Sides, Philosopher, Tradition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

  Amos Oz

  Integrity, Opposites, Compromise

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Believe, Inspiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Optimism

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

  Richard Grossman

  Thinking, Brutality, Common

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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