Idealism Quotes (page 2)

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• reality
• buts
• ideal

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. William F. Buckley, Jr.

• sea
• star
• ours

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. Carl Schurz

• diversity
• cover
• ideally

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. Stanley Schmidt

• couple
• him
• together

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. Jacqueline Bisset

• die
• likeness
• establishment

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. Alex Kapranos

• thinking
• support
• reason

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. John Rawls

• deep
• feeling
• spring

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

• thoughts
• political
• politic

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

• people
• find
• canned

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. Scott Bakula

• idealize
• should
• cans

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. Frank Auerbach

• learning
• work
• innocent

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it. Indeed, my ideal soon became my life; whereas, formerly, my life had... George MacDonald

• true
• change
• progress

It is true that a man (a silly man) might make change itself his object or ideal. But as an ideal, change itself becomes unchangeable. If the change-worshipper wishes to estimate his own progress, he must be sternly loyal to the ideal of change; he must not begin to flirt gaily with the ideal of monotony. Progress itself cannot progress Gilbert K. Chesterton

• him
• knowledge
• free

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. John Buchanan Robinson

• opportunity
• together
• white

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela

• life
• beauty
• die

Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would pine away, die, go mad, kill himself or give himself to pagan fantasies. And as Christ, the ideal of Beauty in Himself and his Word, he decided it was better to implant the ideal of Beauty in the soul. If it exists in the soul, each would be the brother of everyone else and then, of course, working for each other, all would also be rich. Whereas if you give them bread, they... Fyodor Dostoevsky