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• My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Liberals, Values, Faith, Community

• It is worthwhile to live
  and fight courageously
  for sacred ideals.

  O blow ye evil winds
  into my body’s fire
  my soul you’ll never unravel.

  Even though disappointed a thousand times
  or fallen in the fight
  and everything would worthless seem,

  I have lived amidst eternity —
  Be grateful, my soul —
  My life was worth living.

  He who was pressed from all sides
  but remained victorious in spirit
  is welcomed into the choir of heroes.

  He who overcame the fetters
  giving wings to his mind
  is entering into the golden age of
  the victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Topics in Death, Ideals, Life

  Tags in Heaven, Difficulties

• Intuition and concepts constitute … the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Ideals, Knowledge

  Tags in Intuition, Mind

• If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Topics in Ideals, Power

  Tags in Mind, Realized

• If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Organize, Hope

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Compromise, Ideals, Perfection

  Tags in Limitations

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

  Harold Nicolson

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Judgment

• I have my values, and if you don’t like them, well I’ve got some others.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Honesty, Ideals

  Tags in Ethics, Values

• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  Unknown

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Plans, Enthusiasm, Imagination

• We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Ideals, Justice, Politics

  Tags in Values

• What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Topics in History, Ideals, Politics

  Tags in Learning

• Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Ideals, Politics

  Tags in Ideas

• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Popularity

• If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Ideals, Progress

• In the world to come, I shall not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?” I shall be asked, “Why were you not Zusya?”

  Unknown

  Topics in Death, Ideals

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Rabbi Zusya, Character, Heaven, Purpose

• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Plans, Identity, Purpose, Intention

• Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Ideals, Inspirational, Politics

  Tags in Change/Growth, Patriotism, Dreams, Purpose, Questions

• Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Reality

• To think and to be fully alive are the same.

  Hannah Arendt

  Topics in Ideals, Life

  Tags in Awareness, Attention, Reason, Thinking

• The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Ideals, Religion