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

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

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

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

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.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

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

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.