idealist

• For the heaven we erect on earth always comes to naught, and the idealist is always vanquished in the strife with fact So far, Dr. Liman. Mr. Sydney Brooks, in a sketch in Maclure's Magazine for July, 1910, writes The drawback to any and to every regime of paternal absolutism is that the human mind is limited. —  William of Germany
• Royce was an unapologetic idealist, arguing that true heroism was to work for the betterment of the community. —  JamBase
• "Mao Zedong was a true idealist, a real comrade, initially," he told the Chinese students. —  The New York Review of Books
• The higher idealist is the positivist who tries to localize the universal, and is in accord with cosmic purpose: the super-dogmatist of a local savage who can hold out, without a flurry of doubt, that a piano washed up on a beach is the trunk of a palm tree that a shark has bitten, leaving his teeth in it. —  The Book of the Damned
• The Villiers who mocked mean things and attacked base things is no longer there; the idealist is at home in his own world, among his ideals 1897, 1899 CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Baudelaire is little known and much misunderstood in England. —  Figures of Several Centuries

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