“Growth means to lie open to the span of the heavens and, at the same time, to have roots in the dark earth; that everything real and true only prospers if mankind fulfills at the same time the two conditions of being ready for the demands of the highest heaven and of being safe in the shelter of the…”— Martin Heidegger, amazon.com
“The Plan for a Green New Deal shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the trans…”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, docs.google.com
“In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.”— Mark Zuckerberg, recode.net
“It's hard to tell someone so young that things don't always end up the way you thought they'd be.”— Lena Dunham, Murray Miller, Ray Ploshansky, Alex Karpovsky, imdb.com
“It is absolutely wrong to project our own harmless soul with its deep feelings, our kindheartedness, our idealism, upon alien peoples. This is true, beginning with Herder, who must have been drunk when he wrote the Voices Of The Peoples, thereby bringing such immeasurable suffering and misery upon u…”— Heinrich Himmler, historyplace.com
“Imagine the world the world you wish to exist, first. Do not be afraid to build it from scratch. Trust your vision.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“It sounds a little idealistic, but the great triumphs of the centuries were achieved by the idealism of individuals, so we aim to be Light and eradicate the world's suffering.”— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“Pornography is far less dangerous than romanticism. Both are fantasies; both have weak premises. But romanticism is why three out of four marriages wind up in divorce court—sexual unhappiness being one cause. Pornography tries to depict some reality, however. Naturally, it too can be misused, but I…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dmitri Karamazov, amazon.com
“For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.”— Paul of Tarsus, biblehub.com
“The pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”— John Green, amazon.com
“It's normal to be screwed up, but it's really screwed up to romanticize it.”— David Shore, Eli Attie, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com