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Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.
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When they come downstairs from their IvoryTowers, Idealists are veryapt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

— 1931Afterthoughts,'Other People'.

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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

— Other People

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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.

filippo tommaso marinetti

— Filippo Marinetti, review 'Poesia', 1905; as quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 78

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Children see things very well sometimes — and Idealists even better.

lorraine hansberry

— Asagai to Beneatha, Act III

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[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal Idealists who would transform the world into their image.

stanley hauerwas

— From "The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics" (1983) in The Hauerwas Reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright

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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the Idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

oswald spengler

— Vol. II, trans. C.F. Atkinson (1928), p. 401

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In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the Idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

sun yat-sen

— Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II (1936)

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"It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of Idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon . All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin."

john buchan

— Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"

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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as Idealists.

jack mcdevitt

— Chapter 18 (p. 166)

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Our Idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet -- in the wrong universe.

revilo p. oliver

— "On the Roof of the World", Liberty Bell magazine (December 1987)

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We have dealt with all these Idealists in the past, I’m sure we’ll find a way to deal with them today... Rid our world of all these fanatics one by one, won’t let not prophet lover ruin my fun. We’ll string ‘em up and shoot ‘em down.

dawud wharnsby

— "Wood and Nails"

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Gnostic ideas had a considerable influence upon such Idealists as Goethe , Novalis and Hegel . The theosophical movement of the 20th century with which Gnosticism has much in common, rightly claims the Gnostics as its spiritual ancestor. Jungian psychology , which owes not a little to this movement, can be of some help in interpreting Gnostic mythology and may help to show that behind it there is a religious experience of a certain type.


— Encyclopaedia Britannica (1963 edition), Vol. 10, p. 506.

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Our Idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet -- in the wrong universe.


— "On the Roof of the World", Liberty Bell magazine (December 1987)

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