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"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
Life
"When we can't dream any longer we die."
Dream
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
Change
"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."
Sex
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
Dance
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
Education
"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
Family
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
Change
"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
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Personal Development
"Ideal is the one, who knows the self."
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Personal Development
"The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations."
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"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."
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"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. . ."
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Personal Development
"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."
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"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."
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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
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