#Idealism

"They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics."

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

"Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot."

"The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it."

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

"As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance."

"Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment."

"Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one"

"Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today."

"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."

"Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda."

"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back."

"The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes."

"One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them."