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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

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.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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.