If I cannot realize my Ideal, I can at least idealize my Real.
Ideal - Idealists Quotes
It may be that idealism requires naivete to survive, because no war ever goes as planned, and peace can be just as confounding.
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Idealists give invaluable service; they give the distant view, which makes progress, as it makes a walk, exhilarating.
There is genuine idealism and there is the Pharisaism that imitates it; there is the psychological need to be dedicated to a cause, which is what makes the profession more than a profession, a vocation; there is the appeal of comradeship in the cause, the intoxication of marching in step with others, open hand or […]
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
