In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Ideal - Idealists Quotes
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit: divorced from it, they remain barren.
There was a time when the American citizen was an idealist himself. Now he is only idealism’s raw material, as a cow is the raw material of butter, ice-cream and custard pie – a stuff milked, tickled, clubbed and pulverized into beauty by ordained virtuosi. I am still so young that my toupee looks natural, […]
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
The noblest movements are apt to outlive their usefulness when their zeal develops into formation: an ideal creates an institution, and then the institution suffocates the ideal.
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word.
If you believe in an ideal, you don’t own it, it owns you.
