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idealist
1. The main contrast between the realist and the idealist is
2. that the realist sees with his eyes open and the idealist
3. in the explicate outer world; the idealist knows that the
4. For centuries, I have been the monster, and you the well-meaning idealist (sound familiar?) who claims he would have undone what he had done, if only given the chance
5. ) The implication follows, of course, that a conservative idealist is a contradiction in terms
6. She was an idealist and, in Millicent’s experience, having an ideal could make you stronger than training ever could
7. Still, he figured they’d be more likely to listen to a confident, commanding emperor, not the inexperienced idealist Hollowcrest claimed Sespian was
8. Brendan was an idealist
9. The pure idealist who does not recognize evil, or the reality of nature in the raw, including human nature, is ill prepared to deal with strokes of evil when they fall, as they surely do
10. The gossamer idealist invariably shrieks, when cornered, that he is being attacked by far right extremists, by religious zealots, by corporate villains, by despoilers of the earth
11. I am a dreamer, an idealist
12. At social gatherings tensions imagined themselves; there was always last month’s gala he preferred to sound like an idealist
13. basis, so they either rejected idealist and behaviourist concepts and labels, or tried to reinterpret
14. According to the idealist perspective, reality is more than our
15. The major problem with the idealist ontology is the attitude of "reification" which often arises to
16. For every idealist
17. explanation, think of some idealist aspect of the case as well
18. He wasn’t an idealist, only a money grubbing slug that had no interest in their goal other than lining his own pockets
19. But they did not find themselves growing up in the country; and Jesus, being a thoroughly practical youth as well as an idealist, intelligently and vigorously attacked his problem just as he found it, and did everything within his power to adjust himself and his family to the realities of their situation and to adapt their condition to the highest possible satisfaction of their individual and collective longings
20. 4 The materialistic scientist and the extreme idealist are destined always to be at loggerheads
21. It required tact, ability, and patience, as well as painstaking devotion, to manage the financial affairs of such an idealist as Jesus, to say nothing of wrestling with the helter-skelter business methods of some of his apostles
22. In the film “1492: Conquest of Paradise” by Ridley Scott, Christopher Columbus, old and defeated, encounters the Treasurer of Spain which blames him for being a dreamer, an idealist
23. 2 On the preceding day Judas had disclosed to some of his relatives and to certain Sadducean friends of his father's family that he had reached the conclusion that, while Jesus was a well-meaning dreamer and idealist, he was not the expected deliverer of Israel
24. This upbringing, while unable to change the young man‘s mentality did alter his perception of society to the extent he became something of an idealist and less of an unfeeling user of people
25. And Kennedy was not the perfect idealist, nor moralist
26. He pieced together the list of defecting military units by intimidating a frail young Melioran idealist who had lost his nerve on the eve of the coup and stayed in Austin
27. “He’s an idealist with a very explicitly defined vision that doesn’t take anyone else’s wants into account
28. The desire for Jesus as action hero, as opposed to incarnation of the idea of agape, leads many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, promoters of the 'revolutionary status quo', to transformer Jesus into a conquering general rather than a crucified idealist
29. The successful business man is more often than not an idealist and is ever striving for higher and higher standards
30. An idealist might try to work within the church to change minds, but this is a very old, established denomination that bemoans the liberal attitudes appearing elsewhere in the Christian faith
31. “I see,” he finally said, talking directly to David, “you’re an idealist, aren’t you? You want to destroy this wicked business I built up, isn’t that it? You want to go home with the feeling that you did a good deed for once, don’t you?”
32. idealist; rather you are hearing counsel that is as significant for health as advice about
33. The idealist mind goes on preparing for something that never happens
34. “My uncle was an idealist,” she said
35. In equally or unjustly, perhaps, as these laws sometimes operate, and imperfect as they appear to the Idealist, they are, nevertheless, like the highest type of man, the best and most valuable of all that humanity has yet accomplished
36. T…To the Idealist school of Alexandria, of which Philo is the representative, paradise was nothing more than a symbol and an allegory
37. The idealist school of Alexandria was visionist
38. You preach to me about vice and aesthetics! You--a Schiller, you--an idealist! Of course that's all as it should be and it would be
39. The most important transaction of social life, he who is the idealist philosopher converts into the most brutal
40. "Charley an idealist!" she said, as if to herself, wonderingly
41. vice and æsthetics! You—a Schiller, you—an idealist! Of course that’s all as it should be and it would be surprising if it were not so, yet it is strange in reality…
42. anticipate by quoting her own criticism of him : she declared that he could not help thinking what he did of her " because an idealist always runs his head against reality and is more inclined than other people to assume anything horrid
43. But yet all his life he loved humanity, and suddenly his eyes were opened, and he saw that it is no great moral blessedness to attain perfection and freedom, if at the same time one gains the conviction that millions of God's creatures have been created as a mockery, that they will never be capable of using their freedom, that these poor rebels can never turn into giants to complete the tower, that it was not for such geese that the great idealist dreamt his dream of harmony
44. A philosopher of whatever school he may be, whether an idealist or a spiritualist, a pessimist or a positivist, if we ask of him why he lives as he lives, that is to say, in disaccord with his philosophical doctrine, will begin at once to talk about the progress of humanity and about the historical law of this progress which he has discovered, and in virtue of which humanity gravitates toward righteousness
45. Man is an idealist; woman is intensely practical
46. An idealist was a blind ass—look at Perry!
