“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
“The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.”
“The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.”
“The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal.”
“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”
“A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.”