#idealism

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

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When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Sargent Shriver

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