It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.
Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
Life is wasted on the living.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
A useless life is an early death.
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.