Idealism Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

  Beau Willimon

  Party, Way, Compromise

  "House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon plays a solid hand". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

  Julia Marlowe

  Music, Beauty, Art

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• Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Thinking, Roots

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Love You, Wealth

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.250, Humanix Books

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• A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

  James C. Collins

  Balance, Visionaries, Company

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• But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Simple, Tests

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• There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Opportunity, Expectations, Generations

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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• Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

  Carl Jung

  Long, Dawn, Unlikely

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• . . . you may think I waste my breath
  Pretending that there can be passion
  That has more life in it than death

  William Butler Yeats

  Passion, Thinking, May

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

  Austin O'Malley

  Dollars, Ideals

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• Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that 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

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Unique, Race

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Running, Acceptance, Reality

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• Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Art, Ideas

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• A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

  James C. Collins

  Change, Vision, Balance

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• It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

  Bob Geldof

  Mean, Talking, Giving

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• All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, World, Causes

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• Without a vision the people perish.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Vision

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• In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Country, Europe, Entrepreneur

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• [The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.

  James David Barber

  Opposites, Mind, President

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• In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.

  LeCrae

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Country, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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