Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017) Italian journalist and political scientist
The Theory of Democracy Revisited (1987), 1. Can Democracy Be Just Anyting?
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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe (1936)
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer
The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 387)
Time Patrol
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
Jorge Luis Borges book Labyrinths
"Partial Magic in the Quixote", Labyrinths (1964)
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
George Sand book La Mare au diable
L'art n'est pas une étude de la réalité positive; c'est une recherche de la vérité idéale.
La Mare au Diable, ch. 1 (1851); Frank Hunter Potter (trans.) The Haunted Pool (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895) p. 15
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.”
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator
As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 34.
