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,...

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...

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential.

It’s my duty as a human being to be pissed off

Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape...

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Rakyat yang nasionalis hendaknya belajar menghemat energi. Pemimpin dan pemerintahan yang nasionalis hendaknya memikirkan cara-cara penghematan, bukan mengeksploitas sisa sumber daya alam yang kita miliki. Kembangkan sistem transportasi massal yang memadai, sehingga jumlah kendaraan di...

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

As long as your ideas of what’s possible are limited by what’s actual, no other idea has a chance.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More...

I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic –...

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build...

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed....

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

In reality the universe has no geometry.

Reality is what people who lack vision see.