Best 226 quotes in «idealism quotes» category

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

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

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

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

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.

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

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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.

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

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

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

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

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

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

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

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

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

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

¿Acaso crees que las personas mueren asesinadas por sus actos? No, mueren por sus ideales, porque saben que es el único modo de extinguir el pensamiento único, en general… La historia de nuestra civilización lo ha demostrado con los años.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

Always carry what is beautiful in your heart.

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

And it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were - and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings anymore.

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and make sense of my life. I harbored the hope, I'm now embarrassed to admit, that like a girl in a Lifetime movie, I would look into someone's eyes and find a reflection of my inner life. But sometime between my teenage years and the first years in New York, that idea had pretty well evaporated. I'd grown up.

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of social conscience, The Movies. From all those movies that had begun to come out when Roosevelt went in. He had been a kid back then, a kid who had not been on the bum yet, but he was raised up on all those movies that they made then, the ones that were between '32 and '37 and had not yet degenerated into commercial imitations of themselves like the Dead End Kid perpetual series that we have now. He had grown up with them, those movies like the every first Dead End, like Winternet, like Grapes Of Wrath, like Dust Be My Destiny, and those other movies starring John Garfield and the Lane girls, and the on-the-bum and prison pictures starring James Cagney and George Raft and Henry Fonda.

Călătoria pare să fie destul de lungă. Tânărul pare să se fi îmbarcat în trenul lui Auguste Compte, să fi trecut prin stația teologiei, a cărei deviză era: „Da! Crede și nu cerceta” pentru a poposi și a scormoni acum în tărâmurile metafizicii a cărei deviză este: „Nu!”, iar în depărtare se întrezărește realismul, pe al cărui frontispiciu stă scris: „Deschide ochii și întdrăznește!”.

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed.

Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the animal welfare thing, the social rehabilitation thing, even the Byron thing. He saves the honour of corpses because there is no one else stupid enough to do it.

David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.

Der Erdenkreis ist mir genug bekannt. Nach drüben ist die Aussicht uns verrannt: Tor! wer dorthin die Augen blinzelnd richtet, Sich über Wolken seines gleichen dichtet; Er stehe fest und sehe hier sich um; Dem Tüchtigen ist diese Welt nicht stumm

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.