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Idealism Quotes

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Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Authors on Idealism Quotes: Mason Cooley Richard M. Nixon Bertrand Russell Albert Camus Ralph Waldo Emerson Rick Alverson Assata Shakur Friedrich Nietzsche Sargent Shriver Erich Segal James C. Collins Lafcadio Hearn Austin O'Malley P. J. O'Rourke Ludwig Wittgenstein Robert Anton Wilson Jimmy Carter Sathya Sai Baba Adolf Hitler James Carville Malcolm De Chazal Vernon A. Walters C.D. Wright Stuart Pearson Wright Amos Bronson Alcott John Charles Polanyi Thomas Carlyle Dennis Prager Leo Gordon Neil Kinnock Rainer Maria Rilke Paullina Simons Ronald Reagan
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
Richard M. Nixon

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Wishes are recollections coming from the future.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.
Joyce Carol Oates

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Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
Richard M. Nixon

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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson

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Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
James C. Collins

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

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

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

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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Neil Kinnock

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

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

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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?
Erich Segal

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

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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.
Bertrand Russell

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The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.
Adolf Hitler

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Don't look back, you can never look back
Don Henley

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The actual well seen is ideal.
Thomas Carlyle

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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Happiness too is inevitable.
Albert Camus

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Leadership is Idealism in Action.
Sathya Sai Baba

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Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
Mason Cooley

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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
Anais Nin

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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
P. J. O'Rourke

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There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around. Poetry is not going to reach the numbers of people by which we commonly consider a large audience. It just isn't a stadium-filler. It could still galvanize people during a crisis, but let's just say there are two points at which poetry is indispensable to people - at the point of love and the point of death. I'll second that emotion.
C.D. Wright

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You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
Austin O'Malley

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The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.
Susan Sontag

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The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
Paullina Simons

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The idealist regards facts as provisional.
Mason Cooley

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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Lafcadio Hearn

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We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
Jimmy Carter

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Idealism has devolved into madness.
Ralph Peters

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Idealism is the highest form of reason.
John Charles Polanyi

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My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.
Thomas Huxley

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A dead martyr is just another corpse.
Leo Gordon

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Without a vision the people perish.
Ronald Reagan

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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

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The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.
Dennis Prager

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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
Mary Parker Follett

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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
Henry A. Kissinger

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I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.
Margot Kidder

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If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
Sargent Shriver

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Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
Rick Alverson