Idealism Quotes - Page 4

• You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Heart, Reality

  Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

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• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

  Emir Kusturica

  Art, Hollywood, Poison

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Fit, Chairs

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• There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has done great things. I think we have to have the self-awareness to recognize that the world is a very, very big place, that we could be a force for good things in the world, but we have to have the humility to recognize that sometimes even when we think we're acting from the best of motives our own idealism can be infected by self-interest. Other people in other countries can see it sometimes better than we can.

  Peter Beinart

  Country, Believe, Humility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

  Susan Sontag

  Most Amazing, Phenomenon

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• The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

  Adolf Hitler

  Outward Appearance

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

  John Locke

  Men, Doe, He Man

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.537

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• I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mass Destruction, Bullshit, People

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

  Oliver Stone

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to the contractors, what with the privatizing of all aspects of the government. It's so cold and cynical - all dollars and cents and parcel it up and sell it out and downgrade it and outsource it. They don't consider what it does to people. I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.

  Tim Matheson

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.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. And yes, I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

  Amos Oz

  Integrity, Curiosity, Realization

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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• I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

  Aaron Sorkin

  House, Workplace, Glamorous

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

  John Steinbeck

  Struggle, Animal, Community

  Edward Flanders Ricketts, John Steinbeck (1978). “The Outer shores”

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• It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

  Seth

  Important, Increase, Importance

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• I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Sacrifice, Self, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

  Paullina Simons

  Gone, Left

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• An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Personality, Scales

  Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.124, Ivan R. Dee

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• I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

  Matt Salmon

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

  Frank Gehry

  Cities, Use, Architecture

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Common, Efficiency, Combination

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Ideas, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.267

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