quotations about idealism
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
BAUVARD
Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Properly understood, idealism is compatible with a genuine ascription of truth and falsity and a knowledge of empirically outer objects. What is incorrect, or unjustified, in traditional idealism is its appeal to inner intermediary mental states, ideas, as a barrier to knowledge of an outer world.
GRAHAM BIRD
The Revolutionary Kant
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
V. S. NAIPAUL
Magic Seeds
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Orthodoxy
In deifying human things the idealists always end in the triumph of a brutal materialism. And this for a very simple reason: the divine evaporates and rises to its own country, heaven, while the brutal alone remains actually on earth.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
God and the State