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An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

— Ameen Rihani

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

— Henry Ford

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson

I'm an idealist.

— Bobby Cannavale

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

— Richard Stallman

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

— Rem Koolhaas

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

— Emma Goldman

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

— Henry Williamson

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

— Ameen Rihani

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

— Thomas Pynchon

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

— Josiah Royce

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