An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.
Henryk SienkiewiczThe sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Henryk Sienkiewicz