Idealization

Laws almost always involve approximation and idealization Sometimes the idealization is so great that a law is quite inaccurate over parts of the range of phenomena it is supposed to cover (as is the law for the simple pendulum or the general gas laws). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Though a certain work of idealization is required to posit or conceive of an object as non-thinkable, nonclassical theory presses on to "an epistemological double-rupture" whereby the idealization is identified as such. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In a way that recalls the idealization of Jean Genet by the French existentialists, it was his own freedom from constraints, as much as his urge to break the shackles of others, that drew the Transcendentalists to him. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In their works women artists combine many different elements, such as idealization, realism, humor, satire and irony, which bear witness to their desire to escape the world in which they found themselves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other labels for this kind of idealization include ❋ Frigg, Roman (2006)

But this common kind of idealization, though it is very important and very precious, does not produce the great events in the life of mankind. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)

Many genuine artists, who cannot be content with a mere inventory of material objects, seek to express the objects by what was once called "idealization," then "selection," and which tomorrow will again be called something different. ❋ Wassily Kandinsky (1905)

I have seen facts which would be described as "idealization" if I told them in this place; and the very names of these men, hardly known outside a narrow circle of friends, will soon be forgotten when the friends, too, have passed away. ❋ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1881)

All the materials with which his memory is crowded become classified, orderly, harmonious, and undergo that compulsory idealization which is the result of a childlike perception, that is to say, of a perception that is keen, magical by force of ingenuousness. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

I know clearly only this, that it proceeded, and still on Quaker Hill proceeds from the old religious inheritance, and from the present religious character of the place; that it tends directly to the creation of the community of all men, of all different groups, and that it is ready at hand at all time, to be called to the assistance of anyone who knows how to appeal to that communal unity; and that it is a power of idealization, meaning by that ❋ Unknown (1902)

However, real love, not based on idealization or projection, requires time to get to know each other. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Also, in the early stage of a relationship, when the sex hormones are raging, lust is fueled by idealization and projection -- you see what you hope someone will be or need them to be -- rather than seeing the real person, flaws and all. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So much of what we adults think about family, marriage and divorce is in the abstract -- the desire to get married is often an abstract desire based as much on an idealization of the institution and the expectations of society; the fear of divorce can also be abstract, an abstract fear based on guilt, sadness and confusion about the ideal we thought we had entered into and created and which is now crumbling. ❋ Jonathan Weiler (2011)

For all the strident oratory in the courtroom and the gauzy idealization of Zoe and Vanessa, there's something cynical about "Sing You Home." ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

There was a sense of idealization that came with the Internet era; a sense of an escapist digital fantasy where one could retreat into their own identities and be wistful, pointless and aimless individuals. ❋ Rajiv Naresh (2012)

(Astonishing fact: Ricky Nelson and the character he played in that quintessential idealization of suburbia, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, attended Hollywood High, a school that is now 75 percent Hispanic and that The New York Times accurately described in 2003 as “a typically overcrowded, vandalism-prone urban campus.”) ❋ Unknown (2009)

The assumption of infinity isa mathematical idealization to see where things will approach. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Idealism social connection [Open your eyes] recognize where choice lies in your [palms] to create with your mind for a [greater good] ❋ Ms.Defy (2012)

A: Hey Kelly, I heard that your boyfriend cheated on you again then he instantly apologized and you have forgiven her for 13th time. ... Again. [Whats up with that]? K: Look, He is an amazing guy, but he just has a high sexual appetite, ok? He is smart and funny and alittle bit dorky. I love him no matter what he does and I can live with it.. A: That's good. Keep doing it. You are high on [idealization] [rAtard]. ❋ Tonuk (2011)

[This guy] [changed] his idealism for [pragmatism] when he came to power. ❋ An Idealist (2008)

Idealists are [never] [truly] [happy]. ❋ Killing Kittens (2004)

Tim "[Basicly], we'll [starve] if we don't eat or whatever." Don "Lets go get some lunch" Tim "Thats a great [ideal]!" ❋ Yi Hall (2008)

This [tracks] ideal ❋ Kevin Lund (2004)

Because im not looking at [the couch] behind me, [it does] not [exist]. Boy, idealism is great! ❋ Chad Ruprecht (2005)

i feeling idealic right now [or that] is the idealic [sweater] im [looking for] ❋ Iamsokooll (2009)

[Hey guys], I just had the perfect "ideal". Didnt even have to [reach] for [paper]. ❋ DrumBum (2005)

[The music] that was [playing] at [the club] last night was ideal. ❋ Chelsea Carrington (2005)