I Quotes
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“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
Source: The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism
“Idealism is the highest form of reason.”
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
“Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.”
“Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.”
Source: Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness
“Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.”
“Idealism without consequences is the pathetic dream of every spoiled brat”
“Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.”
“Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.”
“Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.”
Source: Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century
“idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.”
Source: The Descendant
“Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.”
Source: The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God
“Idealismul și violența sunt două fețe inseparabile ale legionarismului, ceea ce pare derutant, unii continuând și astăzi să vadă doar „puritatea” proiectului, iar alții, dimpotrivă, strict dezlănțuirea criminală.”
Source: Capcanele istoriei. Elita intelectuală românească între 1930 şi 1950
“Idealist: a cynic in the making.”
Source: The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes
“Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.”
Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production
“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”
Source: Evil and world order
“Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.”
Source: A Royal Pain
“Idealistic world views should be our focus.”
“Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.”
“Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.”
“Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.”
Source: People of the Lie
“Idealists can be quite a problem when they get disgusted with themselves.”
Source: Super-Cannes
“Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”
“Idealists should always strive to underestimate others, as that will bring them closer to reality.”
“Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.”
“Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.”
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...
“Idealization is not reality; it is a dream, an expectation, and a projection that does not need a woman to be alive to still be beholden to its trappings.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.”
Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
“Idealized media images of women are far from being the only important target when it comes to our beauty-sick culture, but their sheer ubiquity means we can't underestimate their impact. We also cannot pretend that what we see in the media doesn't shape our thoughts and behaviors. It might be tempting to think that your mind is locked behind some protective wall, safe from the influence of the media onslaught, but that's not how brains work. We are all affected by these images. Their influence is insidious, and there is no magic force field to keep it out.”
Source: Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
“Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance,”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.”
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”
“Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.”
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.”
Source: Letters on Cézanne
“Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.”
Source: The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
“Ideally, I'd be paid money to sit in a dimly lit room, reading and talking to nobody. Apart from maybe on the rare occasion where I'm wheeled out to talk at someone about something I'm interested in, and everybody is forced to listen but not allowed to respond.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a place where one can fully support oneself with the help of others within smaller, sustainable communities. Being interdependent instead of relying mostly on machines for the things we need.”
“Ideally, I wanted to become a vegetable. The vegetables were not afraid of anything. The carrots were fucking the earth. The carrots and onions were having better sex than me. Zucchini made scandalous love to paneer, mushrooms, garlic and tomatoes. Basil coated the deep interiors of fully swollen pasta, with names sexier than shapes. R-i-g-a-t-o-n-i! F-u-s-i-l-i! C-o-n-c-h-i-g-l-i-e! Gulmarg salad licked walnut chutney in public. Even brinjal (that humble eggplant), swimming in a pot of morkozhambu, insisted on having more pleasure than me.”
Source: Chef
“Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.”
“Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.”
“Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.”
“Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.”
“Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!”
“Ideally, INTPs might envision their lives unfolding in the following way: 1) acquire adequate self-knowledge; 2) apply that self-knowledge to procure a fulfilling work life; 3) find someone to share that life with.
Unfortunately, what often happens is quite the opposite. Before really knowing themselves, they dive into a career, get married, have children, and suddenly find themselves dissatisfied in their careers and relationships. They then feel stuck, seeing it as overly difficult to change or reinvent their careers, or to heal or discontinue their relationships. They therefore live out much of their lives in limbo, feeling restless, aimless, and dissatisfied.”
Source: The INTP: Personality, Careers, Relationships, & the Quest for Truth and Meaning
“Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.”
Source: The City and the Pillar