The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
We can apply this to our post-911 environment, ... because we have not lost our idealism, love of freedom, civil liberty, and commerce-but we do have a very practical task. As the president told Attorney General John Ashcroft at the time, 'Do not let this happen to America again.'
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.
It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
The show basically charts life. Youthful optimism, brash idealism, first love, setbacks, relationships, the drive to keep on improving one's self and life, ending on an optimistic note for the future. There is no definite script of the show. Instead we follow musical paths.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
People tend to focus very heavily on the idealism of this phase of giving back. But when you talk to people who are involved as volunteers, they say there are more immediate aspects that appeal to them. The relationships and a sense of purpose are just as important as some of the more lofty ideals in getting a satisfying experience.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
My dad was a drummer on the weekends when he was young. Being a kid in the '50s, he got bitten by the rock 'n' roll bug like everyone else. He had a fascination with American culture and the American dream. He fell in love with the idealism.
He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.
We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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