43 quotes found
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-na...”
“As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.”
“Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.”
“I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of...”
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed that ... being willing to fight for his country and the liberty it repre...”
“If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to othe...”
“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”
“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.”
“In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.”
“Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.”
“Reality is what people who lack vision see.”
“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”
“This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.”
“Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.”
“A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.”
“Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.”
“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal cr...”
“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”
“Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrif...”
