Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
Edith WhartonTag: illusions cynicism idealism truths
The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.
Bryant McGillTag: mind idealism debate idea
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!
Lorraine HansberryTag: life dreams idealism realism
We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal.
Rachel Held EvansTag: idealism parenting projection
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair LewisTag: idealism misanthropy
The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of Icarus. Compared to everyday life, the fall of an idealist who flew too high with candle-wax wings is an unremarkable tragedy.
Hwang Sok-yongTag: perspective idealism tragedy hwang-sok-yong pieter-bruegel the-fall-of-icarus the-old-garden
I prefer true over happy now.
Julianna BaggottTag: truth happiness reality idealism
People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.
Nick HarkawayTag: politics reality education knowledge school children sex religion teachers idealism ignorance teaching controversy school-system naivete
A realist is a slave to reality.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: reality idealism slavery realists
You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that.
David Foster WallaceTag: fear beauty idealism creativity ideals writers-block perfection inertia perfectionism infp idealists perfection-and-confusion perfectionists
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