Idealist/definitions

Famous quotes containing the words idealist and/or definitions:

“Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)