Idealism

(noun.) impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are.

(noun.) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality.

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• The bold idealism of to-day may seem mere common sense to-morrow. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the later nineteenth century, this type of idealism was amalgamated with the doctrine of biological evolution. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Idealism creates an abstraction and then shudders at a reality which does not answer to it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Some of them are named scholasticism, sensationalism, rationalism, idealism, realism, empiricism, transcendentalism, pragmatism, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And all the higher class of statesmen have in them something of that idealism which Pericles is said to have gathered from the teaching of Anaxagoras. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The story epitomizes American idealism, restlessness, freedom of individual opinion, and ready adjustment to the surrounding conditions of pioneer life. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The cry raised against these men by the average reformer is a piece of cold, unreal, preposterous idealism compared to the solid warm facts of kindliness, clothes, food and fun. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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