"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."

George Eliot, British Author

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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Such views the youthful Bard allure,But, heedless of the following gloom,He deems their colours shall endure'Till peace go with him to the tomb.-And let him nurse his fond deceit,And what if he must die in sorrow!Who would not cherish dreams so sweet,Though grief and pain may come tomorrow?"

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Idealism, Youth, Dream, Illusion, Hope

"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

John Keats, English Poet

Idealism, Dream, Imagination, Vision, Change

"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."

"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."

"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."

"The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists."

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

"Such views the youthful Bard allure,But, heedless of the following gloom,He deems their colours shall endure'Till peace go with him to the tomb.-And let him nurse his fond deceit,And what if he must die in sorrow!Who would not cherish dreams so sweet,Though grief and pain may come tomorrow?"

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."

"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."

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"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral."

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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one."

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."