Quotes on idealism

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

H.L. Mencken

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

Ayn Rand

“As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.”

Susan Neiman

“Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.”

Ayn Rand

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Wole Soyinka

If the world was an ideal place, it wouldn’t be very interesting.

Chuck Klosterman