The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda.
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.
Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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