Ideals

Examples

• First, the majority of people in the community have low ideals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It could lynch one as a moral monster, when as a matter of fact his ideals were commonplace; it could proclaim one a great benefactor when in truth he was a rather dull old gentleman. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The military feelings, says James, are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Words, the counters for ideals, are, however, easily taken for ideas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It would be hard to find a subject in the curriculum within which there are not found evil results of a compromise between the two opposed ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But these ideals had no counterpart in actual life. Plato. The Republic.
• It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The only practical ideals in a democracy are a fine expression of natural wants. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was, I believe, an array of idols disguised as ideals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Although his educational philosophy was revolutionary, it was none the less in bondage to static ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For ideals, a pious phrase; in practice, the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Another in fluence tending to check the advance of the sciences was the clash between Christ ian and Pagan ideals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In short, the most hardened socialist admits choice and deliberation, culture and ideals into his working faith. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And politics, however pretentiously rhetorical about ideals, is irrelevant if the only method it knows is to ostracize the desires it cannot manage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What ailed Don Quixote was that he and his contemporaries wanted different things; the only ideals that count are those which express the possible development of an existing force. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The difficulty was to find any point of contact between her ideals and Lily's. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These arise when the discrepant claims of different ideals of conduct affect the community as a whole, and the need for readjustment is general. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Too late we learn that such ideals cannot be recalled, though the recollection of them may have a humanizing influence on other times. Plato. The Republic.
• The reconstruction of philosophy, of education, and of social ideals and methods thus go hand in hand. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The essential point is that isolation makes for rigidity and formal institutionalizing of life, for static and selfish ideals within the group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Thorstein Veblen's brilliant descriptions penetrate deeply into our mental life, and Jane Addams has given new hope to many of us by her capacity for making ideals the goal of natural desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• With the renewal of physical existence goes, in the case of human beings, the recreation of beliefs, ideals, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The lineaments which will get embodied in ideals based upon this new recognition will probably be akin to those of Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Not infrequently war gives rise, not only to new educational ideals, but to new institutions and to new types of institution favorable to the advancement of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The school cannot immediately escape from the ideals set by prior social conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Human life and conduct are affected by ideals in the same way that they are affected by the examples of eminent men. Plato. The Republic.
• The gap between want and ought, between nature and ideals cannot be maintained. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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