Idealist Quotes - page 3

I'm a cynical idealist. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
People like your wife are dangerous.” "Why?” Hamilton asked. "They don't belong to any group. They fool around with everything. As soon as we turn our back-” "So you destroy them. You turn them over to the lunatic patriots.” "The lunatic patriots,” McFeyffe said, "we can understand. But not your wife. She signs Party peace petitions and she reads the Chicago Tribune. People like her-they're more of a menace to Party discipline than any other bunch. The cult of individualism. The idealist with his own law, his own ethics. Refusing to accept authority. It undermines society. It topples the whole structure. Nothing lasting can be built on it. People like your wife just won't take orders. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Most of our contemporaries think that, at bottom, being a philosopher and adopting an idealist method are one and the same thing. View quote
Etienne Gilson
Indeed, all idealism derives from Descartes, or from Kant, or from both together, and whatever other distinguishing features a system may have, it is idealist to the extent that, either in itself, or as far as we are concerned, it makes knowing the condition of being. View quote
Etienne Gilson
Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect. View quote
Antonio Negri
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves. View quote
Michel Onfray
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact. View quote
Steven D. Levitt
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic. View quote
Charlton Heston
Sankara was one of the tallest of India's (and the world's) idealist philosophers; his Advaita Vedanta is one of the richest contributions India has made to the treasury of human knowledge. View quote
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
I'm an idealist. View quote
Bobby Cannavale
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. (Brit Marling)
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience. View quote
Elisabeth Rohm
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one. View quote
Honeysuckle Weeks
I am an idealist, which can be tiring. View quote
Hussein Chalayan
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow. View quote
Saad Hariri
The holy fool who'd dragged the solar system into war and seemed utterly blind to the damage he caused. An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was. View quote
Daniel Abraham
I was an idealist in my profession. If I used such expression as 'Jewish bastard' or 'Jewish sow,' it simply meant that this official language had become so much a part of my flesh and blood that I saw nothing unusual in it. I never used anything but spiritual weapons in dealing with offenders. View quote
Heinrich Baab
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. View quote
Madeleine Albright
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. View quote
Madeleine Albright
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. View quote
Harper Lee
Hayek was in many respects a philosophical idealist, in that he believed that ideas rule the world. It was the idea of constructivism, he thought, that has such destructive consequences. If he could combat this idea, then much good would result. (Alan O. Ebenstein)
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist. View quote
Neil Peart
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. View quote
Joyce Brothers
I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being. View quote
George McGovern
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. View quote
Woodrow Wilson