idealism

• What we call our idealism is rooted in materialism and the goal we set ourselves virtuously is a goal of material comfort for ourselves, and, that once attained, perhaps also for others No American can hope to run a journal, win public office, successfully advertise a soap or write a popular novel who does not insist upon the idealistic basis of his country. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• "If I were Evelyn, I should prefer the idealism which is usual under the circumstances. —  The Lady of the Basement Flat
• What is still more remarkable, the logical result of this immense development of ritualism is that the priesthood in theory is practically atheistic, while on the other hand a certain number of its members have arrived at a philosophy of complete idealism which is beginning to turn its back upon ritualism The atheist is not so much the man who denies the existence of any god as the man to whom God is not God, who looks upon the Deity as subordinate to powers void of holiness and nobility, the man who will not see in God the highest force in the world of nature and in the realm of the spirit. —  Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
• The history of civilization has shown at all times a wavelike alternation between realism and idealism, that is, between an interest in that which is, and an interest in that which ought to be. —  Psychotherapy
• But we went out under the banners of idealism, and now the men are home again, the virus is more active than ever, rotting their very souls The mass of the people will never mentally understand_. —  Fantasia of the Unconscious

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