I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

我是一个理想主义者。我不知道我要去哪里，但我正在路上。

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

我在做我认为我来到这个世界上是要做的事。我真的很感激拥有我所热爱的东西，我认为这是非常重要的。

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

理想主义是思想的暴君，正如政治是意志的暴君。

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

理想是对希望之物和可能之物的富有想象力的理解。

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

理想就像星星，你不可能用你的双手触摸到它们，但是你就像大海上的航海家，你选择它们作为你的向导，跟随它们，你就会到达你的命运。

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

理想是存在的，其余的只是暂时的中断。

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

思想是伟大的箭，但必须有弓。政治是理想主义的弓。

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

如果你被一个想法所吸引，你会发现它无处不在，你甚至会闻到它。

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

如果你已经建造了空中楼阁，你的工作就不会白费;这是他们应该在的地方。现在把地基放在下面。

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

如果你意识到你的想法有多么强大，你就不会去想消极的想法。

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

如果你想造一艘船，不要让人们聚在一起捡木头，不要给他们分配任务和工作，而是要教他们渴望无边无际的大海。

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

在建筑学中，这种观念退化了。设计允许更直接和愉快的路线。

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

在精神生活中，我们的理想最真实地体现在我们如何与他人相处、如何交朋友、如何维持关系以及如何成为朋友上。

In the world to come, I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?"

在将来的世界上，人必不问我说:“你为什么不是摩西呢?”有人会问我:“你为什么不叫苏斯雅?”

Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

直觉和概念构成……我们所有知识的要素，因此没有某种程度上对应于它们的直觉的概念，或者没有概念的直觉，都不能产生知识。