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Ideals and idealism

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
- Baldwin, Stanley
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Best Quotes about Ideals and idealism

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The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.
Cooley, Charles Horton

2.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Chazal, Malcolm De

3.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Rostand, Jean

4.
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Houston, Libby

5.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Coolidge, Calvin

6.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Joubert, Joseph

7.
Ideals are the worlds masters.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert

8.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Goldman, Emma

10.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.
Frank, Anne

11.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Layton, Irving

13.
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
Hedge, Francis Herbert

14.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Schurz, Carl

15.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Sandburg, Carl

16.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Frank, Anne

17.
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Roosevelt, Theodore

19.
Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
Ibsen, Henrik

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Churchill, Winston

21.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Baldwin, Stanley

22.
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

23.
The actual well seen is ideal.
Carlyle, Thomas

24.
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard

25.
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
Ibsen, Henrik

26.
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
Lowell, James Russell

27.
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Webb, Mary

28.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Bakunin, Mikhail

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

30.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Key, Ellen

31.
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
Cather, Willa

32.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Smith, Alexander

33.
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Khan, Pir Vilayat

34.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Kinnock, Neil

35.
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.
James, William

36.
Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
Camus, Albert

37.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Cook, Eliza

38.
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
Lowell, James Russell


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