303 Quotes About Idealism

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

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don’t come true.

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home.

From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego.

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Plato understood love as a powerful engine that can destroy mankind or turn us to the good. Christ made that turn possible, and Spenser shows what can be done in the human soul if we take it.

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.