303 Quotes About Idealism

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

The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.

She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!”She sat rigidly, her teeth and her buttocks clenched tight, nostrils flaring with each impassioned breath, tears burning the back of her eyelids. Was she really having this debate with Bruce Koczynski? A man she believed incapable of these intense opinions and complex ideas? She didn’t even know he had the vocabulary. It was utterly disorienting.

Careful, lest sentiment governs your ideals.

A realist is a slave to reality.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

When materialists like Daniel Dennett say that a person's experiences *are* the chains of neural firings in her brain *they are mistaking the {animal's} tracks for the {animal's} gait; the imprinted image for the phenomenon.*

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world...