Carl Jung

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."

- 'Of Human Bondage' by W. Somerset Maugham