Idealist

ABBA: My big sister (gestures to the kids) – your Sonia Phopho – was an idealist.

Sidney is unsuccessful, an idealist who just bought a struggling newspaper.

The philosophy that has made most sense to Field, he says, came from the British Idealist movement, followers of the temperance reformer TH Green, who “tried to take the honey out the Christian hive and put it into new hives.

I’m not an idealist.

The claim that Ukraine has the sovereign right to join any military alliance is an attractive and dangerous idealist argument.

And only an idealist invites his audience to look at the world as closely and deeply as he does as he reminds us that it is only by seeing — really seeing — the world as it exists, that we stand any chance at all of saving it.

If it can’t, then is deliberative democracy a meaningful democracy or rigged to produce Idealist outcomes?

It is, quite literally, free speech, and using good free speech to drown out bad free speech, which is exactly how all of the idealist platitudes about free speech say that it's supposed to work.

It shaped me into an idealist and a person who believes you can have an impact on the world.

Yet, Lefebvre recognized how the idealist basis of Hegel’s ought to be grounded in concrete history.

It’s a weird idealist in there.

So here were these wonderful, urban-pioneer idealist Quakers, you know, with the biracial family and the international family.

He is not an idealist, but a pragmatist”.

Maybe it’s because he’s still only 26 and an idealist, but here’s the reality: Smart teams – forward-thinking teams – know that the NBA is a star league, and you win with stars, and if you collect stars, you enhance your chances of winning.

The event organizers, a bunch of idealist young conservatives were told that Milo’s people would send a bunch of flyers and posters in the “Let Milo Speak” free speech vein.

The idealist in me says that this is a good sign that there may be some more accountability where it matters (i.e. in private between him and his employers) where nobody has to worry about keeping face and a fair investigation can occur.

According to his aides, he was not the naive idealist his critics made him out to be.

Arguing that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge, Husserl re-defined phenomenology as a transcendental-idealist philosophy.

Berkeley was an idealist who believed that all of reality could be explained in terms of the mind alone.

Empire turns out not to be a means of making money, but instead an idealist pursuit to keep sea lanes open, bullies at bay and nations trading rather than fighting.