#idealism

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous. ↗

— Robert Shea

#computer #creativity #decline #fun #idealism

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #college #finishes #idealism #person

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#always #idealism #many #natural #outlets

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#achieve #choose #enough #goal #idealism

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you? ↗

— James Carville

#sense #some #sustain #then #you

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. ↗

— Nikolai Grozni

#lies #life

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

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #life

We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#parenting #projection #family

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 by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#god #idealism #language #religion #spirituality

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

— Charles Dickens

#procrastination #procrastination