We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact … - Susan Stebbing

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The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

Susan Stebbing

We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.

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