303 Quotes About Idealism

Our understanding of the universe is completely dependent upon the sensory apparatus available to us. Different animals have different sensory apparatus and so will have different but equally valid views of the universe. It is only by going outside our sensory apparatus, and studying how other sensory apparatus work, that we are able to get a better understanding of our own sensory apparatus.

Idealism creates hostages for reality.

A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her.

Marriage: a poetic ideal, a prosaic reality.

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.

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.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.