Pseudoidealism Quotes & Sayings

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself — Jeremy Griffith

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. — Adolf Hitler

You find the path by walking it. — Maya Angelou

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains. — Ramana Maharshi

He realized then that he'd never want to be with anyone else, he'd never want to be anywhere else, and he would surely crumble to ash if this woman walked out his life. — Justine Dell

What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases! — Dada Bhagwan

My life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life. — Ingrid Bergman

I kind of went from bi-curious to bisexual in the space of time it took you to agree to fuck me. — Cecil Wilde

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one. — Anne Rice

Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard. — Shannon Sharpe

[The humanities] invite - they compel - us to confront the truth about ourselves and help us to inhabit with greater understanding the disjointed condition of longing and defeat that defines the human condition. Achilles' reflections on honor and memory and the fleeting beauty of youth; Shakespeare's defense of love against the powers of "sluttish time" Kant's struggle to put our knowledge of certain things on an unchallengeable foundation so as to place the knowledge of others forever beyond reach; Caravaggio's painting of the sacrifice of Isaac, which depicts a confusion of loves that defeats all understanding; and so on endlessly through the armory of humanistic works: the subject is always the same. The subject is always man, whose nature it is to yearn to be more than he is. — Charles Murray

Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven. — Alphonsus Liguori

Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires. — Suze Orman

Moralists advise us all to avoid violence, of course, but only insofar as this is possible. They authorize us, at least tacitly, to reply to obvious provocations by the measured counterviolence that I described earlier, and which seems to us always justified. — Rene Girard

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing. — Ovid