A Quote by John Zorn

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

John Zorn

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John Zorn
American - Composer
Born: September 2, 1953

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy

John Zorn

There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were envisioning a future that was mostly idealistic. I think that came crashing down a little bit in 9/11, or a lot. There is something about Portland that does seem to still exist in this total idealistic world and total idealistic mind frame, and I think that's what Dream of the '90s is talking about.

Carrie Brownstein

Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

Marianne Williamson

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.

Jonathan Safran Foer

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

Robert Anton Wilson

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Of course there have been times when I've done crazy things. But I don't think I'm crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world.

Metta World Peace

If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.

Peter Maurin

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

Henri Bergson

some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.

Paulo Freire

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

Emilio Estevez

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

Jack Kerouac

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

Randeep Hooda

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.