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“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”
― Cornel West, Cornel West Reader

“It is interesting that we call something good a 鈥渄ream,鈥� but being called a 鈥渄reamer鈥� is somewhat of a putdown.

Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.

If you are a secret dreamer, it鈥檚 your time to announce yourself.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?"

The First Lord stared at her for a moment, his eyes cold. Then he spoke in a very quiet, precise, measured voice. "I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been hacked apart by enemies of humanity, at people who are free to lie and steal and plot and complain and accuse and behave in all manner of repugnant ways because the Realm stands. Because law and order stands. Because something other than simple violence shapes the course of their lives. And I look, wife of my son, mother of my heir, at a very few decent people who have had the luxury of living their lives without being called upon to make hideous decisions I would not wish upon my worst enemies, and who consequently find such matters morally appalling when they consider them--because they have not had to be the ones who dealt with them." He took a short, hard swallow of wine. "Feh. Aquitaine thinks me his enemy. The fool. If I truly hated him, I'd give him the Crown.”
― Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury

“Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“At twenty, if you are not an idealist, then you don't have a heart. And if you continue being an idealist at forty, then you don't have a brain.”
― Sudha Murty, House of Cards

“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.”
― Frank O'Connor, Collected Stories

“This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“If every do-gooder in this world actually did some good, then the world would do better.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland”
― Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

“He was a man who saw nothing for himself, but only through a literary atmosphere, and he was dangerous because he had deceived himself into sincerity. He honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for the artistic temperament and his idleness for philosophic calm.....he lied and never knew that he lied, and when it was pointed out to him said that lies were beautiful. He was an idealist.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blas茅. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we break through it and slap people鈥檚 faces鈥攎etaphorically鈥攁nd say, 鈥淭he world鈥檚 collapsing around you, and all you鈥檙e worried about is how many 鈥榣ikes鈥� you鈥檝e got on your social media accounts. For fuck鈥檚 sake, wake up!鈥�
We used to think we were a romantic existentialist. But after all the incredible evidence we鈥檝e witnessed in different shamanic traditions worldwide, we鈥檝e had to adjust our perceptions. Now we are happy to be a compassionate utopian idealist. The potential of humanity is infinite. And the choices we make as a species could be either our downfall or our celebration.
That鈥檚 what we think about now: What鈥檚 next?
There is definitely a parallel between what was happening at the end of the 1970s and what is happening now. People need to be slapped awake 鈥� but that鈥檚 not our job anymore. All of you who are reading this: you鈥檙e supposed to be changing this. You must. 鈥淏ecause what happens in the future is a direct result of what you do and don鈥檛 do right now.
There鈥檚 always a way. You don鈥檛 need resources. You don鈥檛 need money. You just need to have an idea that鈥檚 strong enough, and that you feel strongly enough about, that you will go against everybody else to say or to put into practice.
Please go out and try to change the fucking world.
End gender.
Break sex.
Short-circuit control.鈥�

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― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed”
― Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

“America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.”
― Alistair Cooke

“As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior 鈥� the way we organize and deal with life 鈥� becomes an external representation of our central self.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“If the throne changes hands, we will be invaded. My son is an idealist. Idealists make great leaders, but they never make good rulers. So I'll tell you what I believe, Amani. I believe that if my son's rebellion were ever to succeed, or even gain enough of a foothold to cast doubt upon my rule, we would be torn to shreds by foreign powers. It would destroy Miraji, just like my father would have destroyed it before us.

- The Sultan”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Ideally, Screwtape's advice to Wormwood should have been balanced by archangelical advice to the patient's guardian angel. Without this the picture of human life is lopsided. But who could supply the deficiency? Even if a man鈥攁nd he would have to be a far better man than I鈥攃ould scale the spiritual heights required, what answerable style could he use? For the style would really be part of the content. Mere advice would be no good; every sentence would have to smell of Heaven. And nowadays even if you could write pros like Johanna's, you wouldn't be allowed to for the canon of functionalism has disabled literature for half its functions. At bottom, every idealist style dictates not only how we should say things, but what sort of things we may say.”
― C.S. Lewis, Some Everyday Thoughts

“Losing society's auto expectancy is going to make you or break you.”
― Kayo K.

“Once in the taxi he recalled how Herbert had introduced him to a group of strangers. 鈥業 want you to shake the hand of the most brilliant student of our class at McGill. He could have been a success at anything he wanted. Instead he鈥檚 devoted his life to teaching.鈥� It was clear that they still took him for the freshly scrubbed idealist who had left McGill twenty years ago. They had no idea that he was exhausted, bitter, and drained, and that given the chance he would never become a teacher.”
― Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

“La escuela deber铆a seducir, enamorar. Ser ese escenario donde todos los d铆as los alumnos al salir explicasen en sus casas y entornos qu茅 han aprendido, c贸mo y para qu茅, con entusiasmo, y al d铆a siguiente al llegar a la escuela tambi茅n contar qu茅 han aprendido, c贸mo y para qu茅 con sus amigos, con sus tutores y con su familia. Y generar mariposas en el est贸mago.”
― Anna Fores, Neuromitos en educaci贸n

“For the philosopher, language, thought, and passion are the same. Ideas are personal to a philosopher; they express their human passion and articulate their novel ideas in language. Ideas are more than mere concepts, trifles that the philosophical mind toys with. Ideas provide both the structure and inner vitality that holds great thinkers鈥� conceptual structure together.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Every high ideal appears utopian to the ordinary masses, until they see it manifesting in front of their own eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Let The Poor Be Your God

“Do臒ru d眉r眉st bir yerel amac谋 bile olmayan bir ki艧i, evrensel bir hedefe g眉莽l眉 bir 艧ekilde odaklanm谋艧 idealist bir zihnin amac谋na ula艧mak i莽in g枚sterdi臒i muazzam kararl谋l谋臒谋 ve ola臒an眉st眉 莽al谋艧ma temposunu asla anlayamaz!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A person without even a proper local goal is never likely to understand the enormous determination and extraordinary work pace of an idealistic mind strongly focused on a universal goal has shown to achieve his goal!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Be there for someone who has been there for you...”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“She had devoted time to improving her reading and was now more than proficient. The shelf she'd first cleared with Bianca overflowed with tales of King Arthur and his knights, Ovid's poetry, plays by Sophocles, Aristotle and Aeschylus, Apuleius, names she loved repeating in her mind because the mere sound of them conjured the drama, pageantry, passion, transformations and suffering of their heroes and heroines. One of her favorite writers was Geoffrey Chaucer-- his poems of pilgrims exchanging stories as they traveled to a shrine in Canterbury were both heart aching and often sidesplittingly funny.
Admittedly, one of the reasons she loved Chaucer was because she could read him for herself. It was the same reason she picked up Shakespeare over and over, and the works of Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne. They all wrote in English. Regarded as quite the eccentric, the duchess was a woman of learning who, like Rosamund, was self-taught. Her autobiography, A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding and Life, a gift from Mr. Henderson, gave Rosamund a model to emulate. Here was a woman who dared to consider not only philosophy, science, astronomy and romance, but to write about her reflections and discoveries in insightful ways. Defying her critics, she determined that women were men's intellectual equal, possessed of as quick a wit and as many subtleties if only given the means to express themselves-- in other words, access to education.”
― Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

“It鈥檚 amazing how easily the youth forget the
Holodomor. Soviets not only starved us to death, but enjoyed every second of the suffering they inflicted. You鈥檙e an idealist, Jan, and idealism feels nice to live by, but all it does for you is drop you in a grave thinking the guy who put you there isn鈥檛 so bad.”
― ian kirkpatrick, Boom, Boom, Boom

“We are a nation of bold idealists. Tell us that it can鈥檛 be done and we will lay at your feet the very thing that you claimed as impossible. Yet, our generosity and camaraderie as a nation is as bold as our idealism. Therefore, those traits will demand that we never stoop to ridiculing your doubt regarding our capabilities. Rather, they will demand that we be ever-ready to extend you an invitation to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in achieving the next thing that you state can鈥檛 be done.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents whileb proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accumulated! Idols of stupidity they are; public reminders of a state of affairs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic.

The meaning of it all is unfolding right under our noses, all the time, but we can't see it. We don't pay any attention. We were taught from childhood to avert our gaze, lest we be considered fools. So now we seem to live in some kind of collective trance, lost in a daze the likes of which have probably never before been witnessed in history. We feel the gaping emptiness and meaninglessness of our condition in the depths of our psyches. But, like a desperate man thrashing about in quicksand, our reactions only make things worse: we chase more fictitious goals and accumulate more fictitious stuff, precisely the things that distract us further from watching what is really happening. And, when we finally realize the senselessness of such reactions, we turn to 'gurus' doling out pill-form answers instead of paying attention to life, the only authentic teacher, who is constantly speaking to us. There is no literal shortcut to whatever it is that the metaphor of life is trying to convey. There is no literal truth. The meaning of it all cannot be communicated directly. There are no secret answers spelled out in words in some rare old book. The metaphor is the only way to the answers, if only we have patience and pay attention. Look around: what is life trying to say?”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything