A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: optimism idealism genius realistic utopia idealists idealistic
To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: idealism dream idealist dreamer
Reality is what people who lack vision see.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reality vision idealism utopia idealists
I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: innocence cynicism idealism corruption disappointment cynic cynical sodom
You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.
Thomas PynchonTags: idealism delusion revisionism
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy.But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.
G.K. ChestertonTags: politics age experience youth idealism practicality
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.
Joe BidenTags: cynicism indifference idealism
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
Richard RortyTags: future love civilization atheism hope idealism atheist law perfection secular utopia descendants secularist global-civilization sense-of-holy
People change, though, especially after they are dead.
Margaret AtwoodTags: identity idealism reflection hindsight reputation impressions redefine redefining
Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?
Abraham Joshua HeschelTags: idealism ideals values relativism
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