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

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

Marty Rubin, American Author

Idealism, Respect, Vision, Dream

"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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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

Idealism, Perfection, Criticism, Love

"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

Idealism, May

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

Idealism, Reality, Illusion, Perception, Dream

"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

Idealism, Love, Peace, Nobility, Life

"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

Idealism, Hope, Darkness, Light

"That's the thing you girls never get. It doesn't matter if you just woke up, or just got done bawling, or just finished your make-up. When a guy's all love-sick over a chick, she looks exactly the same to him all the time: perfect."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

Idealism, Love, Perception, Devotion, Beauty

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

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Idealism, Life, Hope, Despair

"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Idealism, Danger, Freedom, Philosophy

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

"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead."

"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."

"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."

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

"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. . ."

"That's the thing you girls never get. It doesn't matter if you just woke up, or just got done bawling, or just finished your make-up. When a guy's all love-sick over a chick, she looks exactly the same to him all the time: perfect."

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

"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."

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