Idealism Quotes

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams" "All plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind are plainly imaginary" "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man" "I want to be like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and John Lennon but I want to stay alive" "I am not a cynic. I love my country and want to see it live up to its ideals" "To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics" "If men were angels no government would be necessary" "Ambitious people can envision their ideal place to live. But they’re there. They're living in the marginally better version of the world they see" "All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in" "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem" "Idealism is the assertion that we have an absolute finite knowledge of the infinite whereas realism professes that the infinite is known to us only relatively and therefore must remain always a mystery to us" "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth" "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished " "The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace"