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Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.

~ Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Idealism Principle Renunciation Sacrifice Spirit Thriving

It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as such antitheses in the social condition; it will be seen how the resolution of the theoretical antitheses is only possible in a practical way, by virtue of the practical energy of men. Their resolution is therefore by no means merely a problem of knowledge, but a real problem of life, which philosophy could not solve precisely because it conceived this problem as merely a theoretical one.

~ Robert C. Tucker

Robert C. Tucker Antithesis Idealism Materialism Objectivity Philosophy Praxis Spirit Subjectivity Theory

The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.

~ Andy Harglesis

Andy Harglesis Choices Idealism Life Meaning Philosophy Size

Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness; and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us; this is rather a dangerous way to put it; let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something; whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.

~ Edward O. Sisson

Edward O. Sisson Admiration Character Conceit Danger Desires Idealism Losing Respect Self Esteem Self Respect Vanity Worth

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be short lived, and you may feel that you are never good enough.The continued hope for the impossible, the expectation that you will or can be unconditionally loved and adored, is not facing reality but rather holding onto an idealized image of yourself and an idealized version of what others can provide. If this is the case, your sense of self may be threatened by shame and its resulting depression, or by feelings of inadequacy for not living up to your unrealistic ideals. A better understanding of shame may help you recognize your tendency to hide what you feel from yourself and others.

~ Mary C. Lamia

Mary C. Lamia Idealism Ideals Self Esteem Shame Unconditional Love

The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsolable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Idealism Suffering Suffering Of Humanity Suffering Quote

We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--despair from which only the love of our friends can save us, since friends see in us those nobler qualities we ourselves, out of long familiarity, have forgotten we possess. That, of course, is why the suicidal person is difficult around his friends.

~ John Gardner

John Gardner Friendship Idealism Suicide

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have to evaluate it, maybe our time has come. In the context of the real world, not just the American world but all around, we haven't done too well. We are not a very good advertisement for the idea we represented. If you lose one wheel of the car, you might be able to get to the side of the road, and some freaks can make it on two, but if you lose three, man, you're in serious trouble. I think we've lost three.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.

~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Art Artist Artistic Ideal Beauty Ideal Idealism Ideals Music Mystery

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.

~ Harold Edmund Stearns

Harold Edmund Stearns Acceptance Adventure America Civilization Desertion Emigration Experimentation Flexibility Freedom Idealism Institutionalized Looting Lost Generation Possibility Rebellion Revolt Status Quo Youth

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Evil Good Idealism Integrity

You see, Risa, survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. When the need is great enough, and the music loud enough, we can stomp conscience into the ground.'Risa closes her eyes. She knows the dance...'It's the way of the world,' Divan continues. 'Look at unwinding, society's grand gavotte of denial. There will, no doubt, come a time when people look to one another and say, 'My God, what have we done?' But I don't believe it will happen any time soon. Until then, the dance must have music; the chorus must have its voice. Give it that voice, Risa. Play for me.'But Risa's fingers offer him nothing, and the Orgao Organico holds the obdurate, unyielding silence of the grave.

~ Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman Conscience Evil Idealism Society Denial

It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor

~ Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman Evil Idealism

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

~ Oli Anderson

Oli Anderson Action Activity Depresion Execution Idealism Passivity

When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is. Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy.But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Age Experience Idealism Politics Practicality Youth

The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

~ Allen Tate

Allen Tate Culture Idealism

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

~ Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian Anger Angst Idealism Injustice Status Quo Youth

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.

~ Stephen L. Burns

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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

Rachel Held Evans Idealism Parenting Projection

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

Nikolai Grozni Idealism Lies

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

~ Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Hindsight Idealism Identity Impressions Redefine Redefining Reflection Reputation

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

~ Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall Human Nature Idealism

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and make sense of my life. I harbored the hope, I'm now embarrassed to admit, that like a girl in a Lifetime movie, I would look into someone's eyes and find a reflection of my inner life. But sometime between my teenage years and the first years in New York, that idea had pretty well evaporated. I'd grown up.

~ Diane Meier

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Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with bringing about peace, justice and equality in the world than in trying to cut out a niche where they could continue an insular — Jewish — fantasy.

~ Daniel Waterman

Daniel Waterman Humanitarianism Idealism Judaism Justice Peace Persecution Universalism

Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the animal welfare thing, the social rehabilitation thing, even the Byron thing. He saves the honour of corpses because there is no one else stupid enough to do it.

~ J.m. Coetzee

J.m. Coetzee Death Humility Idealism Repentance

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Kearns Goodwin Attitude Compromise Idealism

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

~ George F. Will

George F. Will Complaining Gratitude Idealism Progressivism

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton, without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.

~ Alisa Steinberg

Alisa Steinberg Idealism Optimism Realists

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Genius Idealism Idealistic Idealists Optimism Realistic Utopia

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Timothy J. Keller Art Depravity Idealism Optimism Realism

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

~ Roméo Dallaire

Roméo Dallaire Idealism Optimism

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

~ Margaret Macmillan

Margaret Macmillan Conservatism Idealism Liberalism Perspective Revolution

The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of Icarus. Compared to everyday life, the fall of an idealist who flew too high with candle-wax wings is an unremarkable tragedy.

~ Hwang Sok-Yong

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Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Kilroy J. Oldster Idealism Philosophy Of Life

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

~ G.k. Chesterton

G.k. Chesterton Goal Setting Heaven Idealism Progress

Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. So it was with Holgrave. He could talk sagely about the world’s old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and therefore looked upon the world—that graybearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable—as a tender stripling, capable of being improved into all that it ought to be, but scarcely yet had shown the remotest promise of becoming. He had that sense, or inward prophecy, —which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,—that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are the harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne Idealism Youth

She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.

~ Jessie Burton

Jessie Burton Idealism Innocence Naivete Youth

Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

~ Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund Idealism Revolution Youth

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Futility Idealism Respect
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