Quotes about Idealism

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

the argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.

Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which is odd, seein how unsatisfactory most of us turn out.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.