In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.
Gustave FlaubertTags: god religion language idealism spirituality abstractions
Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!
Eça de QueirósTags: dreams literature fantasy idealism supernatural fantastic
In reality the universe has no geometry.
Kedar JoshiTags: reality universe idealism geometry nstp-theory
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
Eric BogosianTags: injustice youth status-quo idealism anger angst
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
Susan NeimanTags: philosophy idealism
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
Susan NeimanTags: art beauty philosophy idealism
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
Doris LessingTags: success idealism revolution
God save me from idealists.
Jim ButcherTags: humor idealism thomas-raith
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
Ayn RandTags: philosophy idealism
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
Ayn RandTags: philosophy idealism
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