Zitat des Tages über Idealisten / Idealists:
Too often people view idealists as naive.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.