Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

We need realism to deal with reality.

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others.

One doesn't set aside reality in pursuing our interests abroad.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

Realities are greater than ideas. Because sometimes ideas can separate us unnecessarily. So let's attend to the realities that we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. That's what I want to do.

It is good to have aspirations, but we have to be real.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

We have to stick to basics. Sometimes, you expect that miracles will happen, but it does not work out that way.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!