By its variations and greater or less transparency and idealitywe can measure the degree of spiritual insight which has been reached at any moment.
If thisideality or transcendence seems a mystery, it is such only in the sense in which every initial or typical fact is mysterious.
Otherwise we should be constructing not an ideal of life but some dream of non-human happiness, a dream whose only remnant of ideality would be borrowed from such actual human functions as it still expressed indirectly.
It must evidently lie already in the matter it is to organise; otherwise it would have no affinity to that matter, no power over it, and no ideality or value in respect to the existences whose standard and goal it was to be.
This operation is what is recorded and demanded in the doctrine of creation: a doctrine which would lose its dogmatic force if we allowed either the moral ideality or the physical efficacy of the creator to drop out of sight.
The counterpart of this genuine ideality was that the theory retained its moral force and did not degenerate into a bewildered and idolatrous pantheism.
Mathematics owes its public success to the happy choice of a simple and widely diffused subject-matter; it owes its inner cogency, however, to its ideality and the merely adventitious application it has to existence.
There is an immense difference in spirituality, in ideality of the moral sort, between gathering or conciliating forces for action and fixing the ends which action should pursue.
Science will then be seen to be tentative, genial, practical, and humane, full of ideality and pathos, like every great human undertaking.
Of all forms of consciousness the one apparently most useful is pain, which is also the one most immersed in matter and most opposite to ideality and excellence.
Either its influence seems to them too slight to excite alarm, or their systems are too lax to subject anything to censure which has the least glamour or ideality about it.
Singularly individual and different from any other man of his time, he is yet typical of a combination of ideality and common sense thoroughly American.
Speaking generally, the style must conform to the degree of ideality which pervades the representation.
As Ibsen says, "Style must conform to the degree of ideality which pervades the representation.
This amounted to a substitution of the French art of fiction, in some of its forms, for the English tradition of broad ideality and historical picturesqueness.
He especially did so in the Indian elements of his tale, and gave permanent ideality to the Indian type.
There is not much elevation or ideality in his works--much more of reality.
He displayed in youth extraordinary precocity and varied intellectual curiosity, and showed at the same early time a temperament of spiritual sensitiveness and religious ideality which suggests the youth of a poet rather than of a logician.
He looked for ideality in human life; not in the ideas that control and direct it.
It is doubtful if writers in whom the ideality is so strongly marked would be received with favor at the present time either by editors or the public.
The manuscript plot of a romance was found among Hawthorne's papers in which he describes a personage in general outline like his neighbor Alcott, but without his ideality and good-humor.
The ideality in her face, which probably attracted her husband and is visible in her earliest pictures, was not observed by the idealist himself.
We are now reaching a stage, however, where science has brought the ideality of the world into the foreground, where it may become as real and objective a material of study as molecules and vibrations.
Dewey had always kept in mind the idea that the synthetic activity whereby self-consciousness evolves the ideality of the world must operate through the human organism.
An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphurous luster over all.
Whoever looked on the forehead of the good Doctor must have seen the squareness of ideality giving marked effect to its outline.
In like manner, his religious teachings were characterized by an ideality so high as quite to discourage ordinary virtue.
As yet ideality had dealt only with the intellectual and invisible, leading to subtile refinements of argument and exalted ideas of morals.
His Laura has still something of the earlierideality adhering to her.
Not only has the gravity of Dante's passion passed away from Florence, but Boccaccio's sensuous ideality is gone, and the naivete of popular erotic poetry is clouded with gross innuendoes.
The reason of this insipidity is, that the ideality aimed at is all on the outside.
Ideal form is good so far as it brings together in one compact image what in Nature is scattered and partial; but it is an idealityof the surface only, not of the substance.
Ideality in conduct is altogether a matter of adaptation.
Love is, for instance, well known not to be irrevocable, yet, constant or inconstant, it reveals new flights and reaches of ideality while it lasts.
A spirit of lofty ideality pervades the work of Sir Philip Sidney, which is expressive of the aspirations of his time.
In them are reflected the happiness, the poetry, the love of novelty, and the ideality of the time.
Nor are the interests of the life to be summed up in physical self-preservation; the individual acquires, in the natural course of things, interests of increased ideality and complexity, through which the life gains in content.
But with the development of intelligence and the growing ideality of the motives, the ends to which the acts are adjusted cease to be exclusively immediate.
Kant failed, however, to prove the pure ideality of time, as Riehl has sufficiently shown.
His theory of transcendental freedom is grounded upon the doctrine of the pure ideality of time.
But the very exaltation and intensity and ideality of the passion which moved her for him, rendered all the coarse suggestions and conclusions of this woman of fashion most intolerable to her, most cruel, and most degrading.
We have already placed this essence in the prevailing idea of Destiny, in the Ideality of the composition, and in the significance of the Chorus.
Yet the harmonious ideality of the ancients was as foreign to the one, as the other was destitute of the charm of the romantic poets, which arises from the indissoluble mixture of elements apparently incongruous.
The ideality of the representation chiefly consisted in the elevation of every thing in it to a higher sphere.
Lysippus distinguished himself by the fire of his works; but in his time Sculpture had deviated from its original destination, and was much more desirous of expressing the charm of motion and life than of adhering to ideality of form.
The piece is overcharged with mythology and rural painting, is untheatrical, and so far from pourtraying the genuineideality of a pastoral world, it even contains the greatest vulgarities.
Now since the necessity of mathematical judgments can only be explained through the ideality of space, this doctrine is perfectly certain, not merely a probable hypothesis.
The choice and treatment of such a subject are equally fatal to the truth and completeness of historical representation and to the ideality and unity of a work of art.
The treatment of a long series of actions in chronological order is incompatible with artistic effect; the treatment of contemporary history is incompatible with the ideality of imaginative representation.
Upon each recovery a change was visible; a spiritual dawn had risen in her soul; moral activity blending with her idealitymade her life beautiful, even in the humblest sense.
I felt none, and when Aunt Mercy boiled the remnants with milk for a pudding, the sacred ideality of the ceremony I had seen at church was destroyed for me.
The woman who thinks love is all ideality is more liable to follow into undreamed-of chasms than she who, through the complexity of her own emotions, realises its grosser elements.
But it is worth pointing out that these great systematic philosophies defined perfect Ideality in conceptions that express the opposite of those things which make life unsatisfactory and troublesome.
For it is the reality or ideality of this that is ultimately in question.
But what are we to say if we find Kant's most important and brilliant doctrine, that of the ideality of space and the merely phenomenal existence of the corporeal world, already expressed by Maupertuis thirty years earlier?
Thus the empirical inscrutableness of all natural things is a proof a posteriori of the ideality and merely phenomenal-actuality of their empirical existence.
Kant tries to prove from the falseness of both sides the transcendental ideality of the phenomenon, and begins, "If the world is a whole existing by itself, it is either finite or infinite.
With all transcendental ideality the objective world retains empirical reality; the object is indeed not the thing in itself, but as an empirical object it is real.
It appears from my work how fruitful this insight is in connection with Kant's doctrine of the ideality of space, time, and causality.
For it furnishes us with an indirect proof of the transcendental ideality of phenomena, if our minds were not completely satisfied with the direct proof set forth in the Trancendental Aesthetic.
But this will not happen, because of our principle of the ideality of all sensuous intuitions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ideality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ideal; idealism; idealization; romance; romanticism; unreality
