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Idealism Quotes

"Dream up the kind of world you want to live in"

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."

"Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist"

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live."

"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be"

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

"We love evermore everything that isn’t, and are always pining for what could never be. "

"Comparisons are easily done once you’ve had a taste of perfection"

"The American dream of today is not about a house with a white picket fence"

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just "

"The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace"

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

"Too much sanity may be madness and maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."

"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in"

"Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it"

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