Presenting fashion, perfection, art, idealists' ideologies, and poetic space, western reason once again bumped into Oriental inspirations.
What if we were all idealists? What if we were all optimists? What if we all overestimated what we were capable of... what would happen?
Materialists face truth, whereas idealists shun it.
The romantic idealists also turned aside sharply from the individualism and humanism of eighteenth-century philosophy.
Those who once styled themselves foreign policy realists have been left flat-footed and embarrassed by the brave young idealists taking on the tyrants.
Not simply for the vision that some idealists possess, but for the optimism that all idealists have.
There are, however, genuine stories of idealists recreating a forest environment by planting trees in the thousands.
In the field of political action Communists may form an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal united front with some idealists and even religious people, but we can never approve of their idealism or religious doctrines.
Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behind the Iron Curtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
We can induce even those who are idealists not to oppose us.
All you smug idealists are laughing at this newbie/idjit.
The young people and the idealists are all going to work for the Buddhist and the Cause.
I feel most at home with the empiricists rather than with the idealists... That is, I tend to prefer Aristotle to Plato, Hume to Descartes, and shake my head sadly over Pascal.
I call the persons who have lofty ideal and put it into practice as pragmatic idealists. They are ones I best respect and I hope to be such a person for years.
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