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...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
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H.l. Mencken
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
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Bauvard
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
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Susan Neiman
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
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Toba Beta
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To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life–if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes...
Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
