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Idealism Quotes

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just likeoutward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge... Adolf Hitler
Thomas S. Monson quote: "Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your..."
Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination. Thomas S. Monson
Oscar Wilde quote: "Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They..."
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. Oscar Wilde
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Rainer Maria Rilke
Ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. David Herbert Lawrence
Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed. Thomas Hardy
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the sea fearing man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny Carl Schurz
Anais Nin quote: "Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but..."
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death Anais Nin
John Galsworthy quote: "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from..."
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. John Galsworthy
Jenny Holzer quote: "Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age."
Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age. Jenny Holzer
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its... Evelyn Underhill
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. Dick Morris
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
Aldous Huxley quote: "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over..."
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley
John Galsworthy quote: "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from..."
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy

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