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Tag Name "Idealism" (140)

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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
Lewis Mumford
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
Richard M. Nixon
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Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
Mary Parker Follett
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
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Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.
Dorothy Day
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked What's the big idea? knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
Richard M. Nixon
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Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
Rick Alverson
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Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
Danny Strong
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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
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Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.
George Friedman
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
Anais Nin
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...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
John Buchanan Robinson
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Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.
Oscar Niemeyer
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A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.
John Steinbeck
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
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You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.
Jon Stewart
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Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
Philip Roth
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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.
Josiah Royce
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