An idealist he is, but one who has realised the futility of dreams; like all world-satirists, he castigates to purify.
Did he feel that his hot-blooded Italian should not be made too much of an idealistin his relation to women?
The bell-founder is an idealist with a feeling for the dignity of man and of man's handiwork.
His contention is that while the realist may be the more admirable in a limited sphere, the idealist has a larger sphere, and his perfection is a higher thing.
Instead of an excellent youth pitifully done to death by a jealous brother, we get a towering idealistwho is the moulder of his own fate.
It is a part of Schiller's theory that the true realist and the sane idealist must finally come together on common ground.
There seems at first blush but little resemblance between the fanatical idealist of Schiller's imagination and the sensible Dresden lawyer, but the Körner strain in Posa is unmistakable.
From the realist we turn easily and with pleasure to actual life; the idealist puts us for the moment out of humor with it.
Karl is an idealistand a man of sentiment; Franz is a materialist to whom the natural emotions of the heart are objects of cynical derision.
Every now and then some idealist comes forward and declares that you should say nothing in criticism of a man's book which you would not say of it to his face.
Most people have never had ideals, but only moods and fashions, but such people, least of all, are fitted to find in them that pleasure of the rococo which consoles the idealist when the old moods and fashions reappear.
The dominant interest in the French romances is the same as in the Provençal lyric poetry and in the Romaunt of the Rose; namely, the idealist or courteous science of love.
Further, the partnership of Kari and Bjorn, and Kari's appreciation of his idealist companion, go a long way to save Kari from a too exclusive and limited devotion to the purpose of vengeance.
He is the idealist of his own heroism, and believes in himself as a hero.
There is nothing romantic or idealist in Begon; he is merely an honest country gentleman, rather short of work.
It follows from all this, evidently, that a great idealist never can be egotistic.
Charles Sumner was a high-minded idealist and a scholar, devoted to noble ends, but not well versed in human nature.
Lincoln, though we have called him anidealist at heart, habitually guided himself by logic, by hard sense, and by such evidence as passes in a court of law.
Indeed Seward, though the phrase was his, was as little an idealistof the individual conscience as was Lincoln.
The idealist crowd also always makes idols of its ideals and worships them with human sacrifice.
But are there not also peaceable crowds, crowds devoted to religious and moral propaganda, idealist crowds?
A statesman, to deserve the title in its full sense, must be an idealist in his aims, but practical in his methods.
The unpractical idealist may be invaluable when he is a voice only.
He does not see that the idealist never regarded the fact of existence as something superadded to the essence of a thing; but always held it to be identical with the essence.
The idealist makes no such distinction as affirmation and existence.
This argument of the realist is based on a complete misunderstanding of the idealist position.
It has not caused the creation of the world, neither in a theological nor in an idealist sense, nor is it a mere effect of the brain substance, as the materialists of the eighteenth century represented it.
If the idealist makes a distinction between matter and force, he does not mean to deny that the real phenomenon of force is inseparably linked with matter.
Not nature, but science is to those idealist philosophers the source of truth.
But he remains behind the idealistwhen he ignores the difference between matter and force.
The spiritualist or idealist believes in a spiritual, which means in a ghostlike and inexplicable, nature of force.
Therefore, the idealist philosophical systems from Kant to Hegel which consist chiefly in the development of the dialectic method, must be regarded as the indispensable pioneers and precursors of Dietzgen's proletarian philosophy.
In contradistinction to the idealist systems of the most flourishing time of German philosophy which considered the Mind as the basis of all existence, it starts from concrete materialist being.
The idealist regards reason alone as the source of all understanding, while the materialist looks upon the world of sense perceptions in the same way.
But her criticism finds support in quite different arguments; an idealist lack of clearness enfolds the end to be attained, and still more the means to it.
This fact can only be understood in view of the purely idealist starting-point from which the Anarchists proceed.
How, then, does the idealist meet this case which we have specially instanced, the demand for new notions of space and time made by the Principle of Relativity?
The classical work on what I have called the modern idealistdoctrine (I have avoided the word intellectualist) is Mr. F.
We followed the idealist argument on which it is based, and this seemed to lead us inevitably, in the doctrine of the Absolute, to the paradox that unless we know everything we know nothing.
This is the theory of truth that accords with the idealist view, and this view finds its most perfect expression in the theory of the Absolute.
Let us now consider the explanation of error offered by the idealist philosophy.
Now, as we saw in our account of the idealist argument, it is the fact of illusion and error that compels us to seek reality behind the appearances that are the sense data of our conscious experience.
The idealist theory implies that there is no real error, but only a variety in the degree of truth.
This is the axiom on which the idealistargument is based.
With this view the idealist will be in agreement; his objection is of a different kind.
The idealist argument which we have followed was an attempt to {43} determine the nature of reality, and not an attempt to explain what we mean when we say that an idea agrees with its object.
The mere fact seems, at first sight, barren and unpromising enough, but the idealist does not find it so.
He who becomes an idealist usually does so, I think, after weighing the arguments presented by the hypothetical realist, and finding that they seem to carry one farther than the latter appears to recognize.
The fact is that the man who has never weighed the evidence that impresses the idealist is not able to see clearly what is meant by that external world in which we all incline to put such faith.
Thus, the idealist may conceive of the Absolute as an all-inclusive Mind, of which finite minds are parts.
Thus, the idealist maintains that there is no existence save psychical existence; that the material things about us are really mental things.
This idealist temper helps to explain the deliberate avoidance of all emphasis on appearances of material solidity by means of chiaroscuro, &c.
He was an idealist with all the idealist's hatred of a utilitarian system, and a mystic with all the mystic's contempt for a life of mere external activity.
According to Bakounine "Proudhon, in spite of all his efforts to get a foothold upon the firm ground of reality, remained an idealist and metaphysician.
In it Idealist speculation was attacked and beaten by Materialist dialectic, the theoretical basis of modern Socialism.
As a matter of fact he has only spoken the last word of idealist speculation.
Dennis was an idealist also, and he saw the workmen's side of the question of private ownership.
Mollie has forgiven me for my little ruse; she knows an idealist must have plenty of scope, and that everything is fair in love or war.
The problem of the education of such a young idealist is a difficult one; but it seems clear that its principle ought to have been a judicious, not a harsh or pedantic, regularity.
He is the idealist disillusioned by loss of faith, not in his ideals, but in humanity.
He had the touching confidence of the idealist that humanity only had to be shown the way out of the wilderness to plunge into it with joyous shouts, and hurry along it with eager enthusiasm.
It is this confidence which makes the idealist an object of pity to the cynic.
For the cynic is often only the idealist turned sour.
Maeterlinck, another idealistof the day, wrote The Blue Bird.
The mother, in her new rôle of idealist and life-manager never, practically for one single moment, gives her child the unthinking response from the deep dynamic centers.
This Ernest, in reality the Graf von Trautenau, is an idealist of the type that Wedekind is fond of delineating.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idealist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
