Idealism Quotes

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

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

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

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

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

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.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

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

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

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

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

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

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

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

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

In reality the universe has no geometry.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

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

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

Don't look back, you can never look back

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

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

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.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Leadership is Idealism in Action.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

The actual well seen is ideal.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.