idealism

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ccc3006	Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.	co-dependence divorce idealism idealists marriage narcissism sociopathology the-rules-of-attraction victims-of-narcissists	Jonathan Franzen
9cf9a63	I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people,	good-and-evil idealism politics vetinari	Terry Pratchett
a4efea7	Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda.	idealism inspirational spirit youth	Tan Malaka
aca7297	There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.	criminals god good-and-bad good-and-evil heaven idealism jesus life-lessons prejudice prejudices religion	Neil Gaiman
33cfe3d	God save me from idealists.	idealism thomas-raith	Jim Butcher
e2e7cde	Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?	idealism illusions truths	Edith Wharton
afd8bc2	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 childlike faith in practical politics.	idealism ideals politics pragmatism	G. K. Chesterton
a35d265	What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.	art avant-garde confidence culture david-foster-wallace ebullience idealism irony meta-modernism metaphor post-ironic postmodernism shia-lebouf	Robert Hughes
ee38d30	At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry's language, entering Henry's world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.	idealism imagination poetry	Anaïs Nin
e756ac5	People change, though, especially after they are dead.	idealism identity impressions redefine redefining reflection reputation	Margaret Atwood
48fbbb6	You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.	idealism revisionism	Thomas Pynchon
d2dec01	Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility.	idealism	Thomas Pynchon
569983e	History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.	idealism	Arthur Koestler
fbf0bb2	I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.	hypocrisy idealism	John Howard Griffin
39b98e2	How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.	icarus idealism	gustave flaubert
199faf3	Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.	attraction beauty idealism love	Donna Tartt
bcf27e6	All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.	disillusionment evangelism idealism	Harold Bloom
93954ad	I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it	idealism	Jack Kerouac
2e97c30	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.	god idealism language religion spirituality	Gustave Flaubert
596f2c0	I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.	cynic cynical cynicism disappointment idealism innocence sodom	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a29a890	We've already had , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge--like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself.	humanism idealism lebedyev secular-humanism vanity	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
e74cb1e	"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."	experience idealism politics practicality youth	G.K. Chesterton
c77cbee	I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it.	civilization colonization commune crowds history human-nature idealism noise privacy society study wild	Wallace Stegner
7a88aac	It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.' 'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.	crowds humanity idealism individuality privacy	Wallace Stegner
a8bfa17	"He wondered why he cared so desperately about the fate of his adopted country and others seemingly so little. "To see the character of the government and the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot, puts my heart to the torture. Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? Or what is it that thus torments me at a circumstance so calmly viewed by almost everybody else? Am I a fool, a romantic Quixote, or is there a constitutional defect in the American mind? Were it not for yourself and a few others, I . . . would say . . . there is something in our climate which belittles every animal, human or brute. . . . I disclose to you without reserve the state of my mind. It is discontented and gloomy in the extreme. I consider the cause of good government as having been put to an issue and the verdict against it."	government idealism patriotism politics	Ron Chernow
d2511bd	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.	heaven idealism progress	G.K. Chesterton
0a81964	He had always had a passion for life and the idealism he had come across seemed to him for the most part a cowardly shrinking from it. The idealist withdrew himself because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows. For Phillip, this type was Hayward, fair, languid, too fat now and rather bald, still cherishing the remains of his good looks and still delicately proposing to do exquisite things in the uncertain future; and at the back of this were whiskey and vulgar amours of the street.	idealism joie-de-vivre	W. Somerset Maugham
86f4258	Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.	disillusionment idealism	Barbara W. Tuchman
53bfc7c	"You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, this little femme scampering back and forth with scented messages tucked in her little secret places." She was too young then to understand what he thought he was offering her, a secret about power in the world. That's what he thought it was. Brock was young then too. She only took it as some parable about his feelings for her, one she didn't exactly understand but covered for with the wide invincible gaze practiced by many sixties children, meaning nearly anything at all, useful in a lot of situations, including ignorance."	idealism interesting-undercurrents	Thomas Pynchon
dbd4efd	Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.	idealism ideas life live money thoughts work young	Mitch Albom
2f19fac	He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.	idealism intimacy-with-god prayer	Barbara W. Tuchman
0e8a752	The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.	idealism perspective	John Howard Griffin
f1f0324	Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.	idealism ideas life live thoughts university work young	Mitch Albom
c37c2f1	The son of a bitch believes.	humor idealism	Don DeLillo
2ebf360	The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist.	genocide idealism individual individuality leaders racism totalitarinism	Philip Gourevitch
921a68f	You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.	crusade-to-maxis dyal-travec idealism realism revolution	Jack Vance

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

co-dependence divorce idealism idealists marriage narcissism sociopathology the-rules-of-attraction victims-of-narcissists

Jonathan Franzen

9cf9a63

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people,

good-and-evil idealism politics vetinari

Terry Pratchett

a4efea7

Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda.

idealism inspirational spirit youth

Tan Malaka

aca7297

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

criminals god good-and-bad good-and-evil heaven idealism jesus life-lessons prejudice prejudices religion

Neil Gaiman

33cfe3d

God save me from idealists.

idealism thomas-raith

Jim Butcher

e2e7cde

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

idealism illusions truths

Edith Wharton

afd8bc2

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 childlike faith in practical politics.

idealism ideals politics pragmatism

G. K. Chesterton

a35d265

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

art avant-garde confidence culture david-foster-wallace ebullience idealism irony meta-modernism metaphor post-ironic postmodernism shia-lebouf

Robert Hughes

ee38d30

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry's language, entering Henry's world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

idealism imagination poetry

Anaïs Nin

e756ac5

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

idealism identity impressions redefine redefining reflection reputation

Margaret Atwood

48fbbb6

You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.

idealism revisionism

Thomas Pynchon

d2dec01

Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility.

idealism

Thomas Pynchon

569983e

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

idealism

Arthur Koestler

fbf0bb2

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

hypocrisy idealism

John Howard Griffin

39b98e2

How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.

icarus idealism

gustave flaubert

199faf3

Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.

attraction beauty idealism love

Donna Tartt

bcf27e6

All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

disillusionment evangelism idealism

Harold Bloom

93954ad

I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it

idealism

Jack Kerouac

2e97c30

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.

god idealism language religion spirituality

Gustave Flaubert

596f2c0

I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.

cynic cynical cynicism disappointment idealism innocence sodom

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a29a890

We've already had , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge--like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself.

humanism idealism lebedyev secular-humanism vanity

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

e74cb1e

"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."

experience idealism politics practicality youth

G.K. Chesterton

c77cbee

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it.

civilization colonization commune crowds history human-nature idealism noise privacy society study wild

Wallace Stegner

7a88aac

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.' 'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.

crowds humanity idealism individuality privacy

Wallace Stegner

a8bfa17

"He wondered why he cared so desperately about the fate of his adopted country and others seemingly so little. "To see the character of the government and the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot, puts my heart to the torture. Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? Or what is it that thus torments me at a circumstance so calmly viewed by almost everybody else? Am I a fool, a romantic Quixote, or is there a constitutional defect in the American mind? Were it not for yourself and a few others, I . . . would say . . . there is something in our climate which belittles every animal, human or brute. . . . I disclose to you without reserve the state of my mind. It is discontented and gloomy in the extreme. I consider the cause of good government as having been put to an issue and the verdict against it."

government idealism patriotism politics

Ron Chernow

d2511bd

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.

heaven idealism progress

G.K. Chesterton

0a81964

He had always had a passion for life and the idealism he had come across seemed to him for the most part a cowardly shrinking from it. The idealist withdrew himself because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows. For Phillip, this type was Hayward, fair, languid, too fat now and rather bald, still cherishing the remains of his good looks and still delicately proposing to do exquisite things in the uncertain future; and at the back of this were whiskey and vulgar amours of the street.

idealism joie-de-vivre

W. Somerset Maugham

86f4258

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.

disillusionment idealism

Barbara W. Tuchman

53bfc7c

"You're the medium Weed and I use to communicate, that's all, this set of holes, pleasantly framed, this little femme scampering back and forth with scented messages tucked in her little secret places." She was too young then to understand what he thought he was offering her, a secret about power in the world. That's what he thought it was. Brock was young then too. She only took it as some parable about his feelings for her, one she didn't exactly understand but covered for with the wide invincible gaze practiced by many sixties children, meaning nearly anything at all, useful in a lot of situations, including ignorance."

idealism interesting-undercurrents

Thomas Pynchon

dbd4efd

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

idealism ideas life live money thoughts work young

Mitch Albom

2f19fac

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

idealism intimacy-with-god prayer

Barbara W. Tuchman

0e8a752

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

idealism perspective

John Howard Griffin

f1f0324

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

idealism ideas life live thoughts university work young

Mitch Albom

c37c2f1

The son of a bitch believes.

humor idealism

Don DeLillo

2ebf360

The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist.

genocide idealism individual individuality leaders racism totalitarinism

Philip Gourevitch

921a68f

You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.

crusade-to-maxis dyal-travec idealism realism revolution

Jack Vance