A Quote by Malcolm de Chazal

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Malcolm de Chazal

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Malcolm de Chazal
French - Writer
September 12, 1902 - October 1, 1981

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

Louise J. Kaplan

You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

George Santayana

Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

Thomas Huxley

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Vladimir Lenin

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

John Cleese

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

Shane Claiborne

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.

Michel Onfray

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

Suzanne Collins

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Matthew Prior

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

Matthew Prior

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Beth Moore

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Julie Burchill

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