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“If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes ...”
“The epitome of our life force turns on the seam where our tempered idealistic expectations meet the annealed exigencies fueling the cataclysm of a pressing personal crisis. Many of us do not deciph...”
“We tend to take whatevers worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal.”
“Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.”
“Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensiti...”
“The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.”
“Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.”
“Mans own youth is the worlds youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earths granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he lik...”
“She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because...”
“Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.”
“Since I neither want not can influence the events of the world, my mission is to preserve the internal integrity and equilibrium of my mind; that will be in which the manor in which I recover the p...”
“A realist is a slave to reality.”
“For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.”
“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.”
“While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.”
“Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work o...”
“Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young ...”
“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...”
“We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal.”
