Idealism Quotes

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Adlai Stevenson, in "Putting First Things First", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)

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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.


— Gautama Buddha, in Dhammapada, as translated by T. Byrom (1993)

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You are not controlling the storm , and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.


— Sam Harris, in Free Will (2012)

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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.


— Sidney Justin Harris, in "Thoughts at Large", Chicago Sun-Times; reprinted in Ann Landers's column, The Washington Post (November 12, 1979), p. B7

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A doctrine which, because of its little-circumspect idealism, offends not just faith, but reason itself.


— Attributed to Immanuel Kant in Luigi Ferrarese (1838) Memorie Risguardanti la Dottrina Frenologica ("Thoughts Regarding the Doctrine of Phrenology", p. 16

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America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.


— Ronald Reagan, during the signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians (10 August 1988)

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

buckley, william f., jr.

— Attributed by Jonathon Green, The Cynics' Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) , p. 34.

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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.


— H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major (1916), p. 19; later altered to "concludes that it will also make better soup", in A Book of Burlesques (1924), p. 205 and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), p. 617

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