All 9 Uses of
idealism
in
Atlas Shrugged
- I mean that your attitude may be highly idealistic-as I am sure it is-but, unfortunately, most people do not share your lofty frame of mind and will misinterpret your action in the one manner which would be most abhorrent to you.†
Chpt 2.2
- He is the man whom people call an idealist.†
Chpt 2.4
- He saw me approaching-and he did not know, but I knew, what made him whirl upon me and cry, Tin so sick of all of you Impractical idealists!†
Chpt 3.2
- I have never believed in the efficacy of idealists-have you? and this is no age for impractical idealism.†
Chpt 3.3
- I have never believed in the efficacy of idealists-have you? and this is no age for impractical idealism.†
Chpt 3.3
- Maybe I'm just a hopeless idealist, looking for the impossible.†
Chpt 3.4
- Cuffy Meigs tried to avoid her; his manner was part scorn, as if he considered her an impractical idealist, part superstitious awe, as if she possessed some incomprehensible power with which he preferred not to tangle.†
Chpt 3.5
- You who've never grasped the nature of evil, you who describe them as 'misguided idealists'-may the God you invented forgive you! they are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul.†
Chpt 3.7
- We can't adopt an idealistic theory, which-"†
Chpt 3.8 *
Definition:
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(idealism as in: youthful idealism) the belief that behavior should be guided by high ideals or standards and often that good things will result -- sometimes used to imply that such beliefs are unrealistic