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
More Quotes By John Howard Griffin
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and...
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.
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the...
How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.
