303 Quotes About Idealism

the taste of death does not comes from the recipe of cowardness

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.

I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

What happiness there had been in those days! What freedom! What hope! What an abundance of illusions! She had none left now. Each new venture had cost her some of them, each of her successive conditions: as virgin, wife and mistress; she had lost them all along the course of her life, like a traveler who leaves some of his wealth at every inn along the road.

The immediate result of abandoned idealism is an embittered and drained man, whether he realizes it or not, whether he likes it or not. He is capable of acting in his own interest, but only to the extent that those interests coincide with those of the lowest animals.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

God save me from idealists.