#idealism

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

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#always #don quixote #great #hope #human

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. ↗

— Danny Strong

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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#been #being #closer #contact #deprived

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

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