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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The actual well seen is ideal. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. (Luxemburg Rosa)
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? (Luxemburg Rosa)
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. (Luxemburg Rosa)
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. (Luxemburg Rosa)
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. (Luxemburg Rosa)
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Ideals are the worlds masters. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. (Luxemburg Rosa)
We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. (Luxemburg Rosa)
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. (Luxemburg Rosa)
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The enemy of idealism is zealotry. (Luxemburg Rosa)
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Idealist: a cynic in the making. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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