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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
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.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
We know the ideal isn't where the action is.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
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