The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the ’70s and became disillusioned in the ’80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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