His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

With Herberet's blessing, he was convinced that Allstates' Wisconsin folly would be ideal for conversion to airplane sub-assembly, tanks, missiles or ordnance of some kind.

Apollo was the immortal god of ideal balance and order ; his shrine in Delphi has the inscription: " Nothing in excess ".

Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

In 1968, he was cited by William F. Buckley as one of several historical figures whose best qualities would be emulated by the ideal President.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty view of nature as expressed by Caravaggio.

During the naval expansion of Aegina during the Archaic Period, Kydonia was an ideal maritime stop for Aegina's fleet on its way to other Mediterranean ports controlled by the emerging sea-power Aegina.

His other important works include his Letters to Serapion, which dealt with the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and his classic Life of St Anthony, which was translated into several languages and played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity.

Isis, an Egyptian goddess who represented, among many other things, ideal motherhood, was often portrayed as suckling pharaohs, thereby confirming their divine status as rulers.

In northern Europe, new technological innovations such as the heavy plough and the three-field system were not as effective in clearing new fields for harvest as they had been in the Mediterranean because the north had poor clay soil, and the potato, otherwise ideal for Northern Europe, was an American crop unknown in Europe at the time.

For example, they might interpret a tomato as a vegetable — according to the English definition of tomato — even though the ideal Blissymbol of vegetable was restricted by Bliss to just vegetables growing underground.

The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.

Comedy was ideal for the early silent films, as it was dependent on visual action and physical humour rather than sound.

Celibacy was advocated as an ideal rule of life for all monks and nuns by Gautama Buddha, except for Japan where it is not strictly followed due to historical political developments following the Meiji Restoration.

In Japan, celibacy was an ideal among Buddhist clerics for thousands of years.

The Puerto Rican scheme was successful and halted the economic damage caused by the beetles, prompting scientists in the 1930s to promote it as an ideal solution to agricultural pests.

For a twentieth century thinker committed to the same ideal, government was an essential tool to the same end ... odern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of classical liberalism.

The ideal quality of the original Somerset Cheddar was described by Joseph Harding in 1864 as " close and firm in texture, yet mellow in character or quality ; it is rich with a tendency to melt in the mouth, the flavour full and fine, approaching to that of a hazelnut ".

Still others see the Millennium as symbolic of a spiritual ideal, with no corresponding earthly condition.

Any philosophy that assigns crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence may be termed " idealist ".

* Chapter 73, an epilogue, declares that the Rule is not offered as an ideal of perfection, but merely as a means towards godliness, intended chiefly for beginners in the spiritual life.

They held that an ideal spiritual state transcends, or goes beyond, the physical and empirical, and that one achieves that insight via personal intuition rather than religious doctrine.

Instead, the Übermensch " seems to be the ideal aim of spiritual development more than a biological goal .".

* Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that ' transcends ' the physical and empirical

This seeming pedantry is, however, atoned for by the clear practical aim of his sermons, the noble ideal he keeps before his hearers, and the skill with which he handles spiritual experience and urges incentives to virtue.

The main belief was in an ideal spiritual state that ' transcends ' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.

Proponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order.

The ideal of the Chabad approach is to articulate this spiritual perception in terms of man's understanding and knowledge.

Its founding principles were to develop the full potential of the individual, realize the highest ideal of education, improve governmental achievements, solve the age-old problem of crime and all behavior that brings unhappiness to our world family, bring fulfillment to the economic aspirations of individuals and society, maximize the intelligent use of the environment, and, achieve the spiritual goals of humanity in this generation.

:: Depending on one's interpretation, it can mean the historical Buddha ( Shakyamuni ) or the Buddha nature — the ideal or highest spiritual potential that exists within all beings ;

When spiritual aspirants are established in the ideal of Sannyasa and brahmacharya, they will be able to mix on an equal footing with worldly men without any harm.

Taking no account of the real forces of the time, he aimed at an ideal form of society in which the clergy should confine themselves to their spiritual duties, and the king should maintain law and order.

Though the inclusion of nondual bodies, genders and sexual designations and other biological florescence, are by definition qualified for inclusion in this article and such inclusion is rarefied, especially when understood as embodying a syncretic and holistic ideal, a " a one-sex / body, multi-gender model that reflected ancient gender norms " and which is metaphorically apt in many spiritual nondual traditions as Burrus & Keller ( 2006: p. 71 ) state:

Burrus & Keller ( 2006: p. 73 ) further to the greater cultural context of mainland America and the diverse two-spirit cultures of the Indigenous American peoples, convey the spiritual view of the Diné or Navajo peoples in relation to the ideal that " all humans were spiritually androgynous ":

The name was taken from the Maharishi's " world plan " whose goals were, to develop the full potential of the individual, improve governmental achievements, realize the highest ideal of education, eliminate the problems of crime and all behavior that brings unhappiness to the family of man, maximize the intelligent use of the environment, bring fulfillment to the economic aspirations of individuals and society and achieve the spiritual goals of mankind in this generation.

" In the Symposium, the most famous ancient work on the subject, Plato has the middle-aged Athenian philosopher, Socrates, argue to aristocratic intellectuals and a young male acolyte in sexual pursuit of him, that eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty, and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth, the ideal " Form " of youthful beauty that leads us humans to feel erotic desire -- thus suggesting that even that sensually-based love aspires to the non-corporeal, spiritual plane of existence ; that is, finding its truth, just like finding any truth, leads to transcendence.

The Trinity is the creator of mankind's being via each component of mankind's existence: origin as nous ( ex nihilo ), inner experience or spiritual experience, and physical experience, which is exemplified by Christ ( logos or the uncreated prototype of the highest ideal ) and his saints.

In his Weltgeschichte he discusses the ancient rivalry between Sadducee and Pharisee, as a contest between the ideal of a political nation versus a spiritual nation.

The Pharisees believed that the Jewish nation was created for something better ; that in its political life it was not to strive for the ideal of brute force but rather for the lofty ideal of inner social and spiritual progress.

Swami Kriyananda Giri, born James Donald Walters ( born May 19, 1926 ), is a direct disciple of the yogi Paramhansa Yogananda ( 1893 – 1952 ) and founder of Ananda, a worldwide movement of spiritual intentional communities based on Yogānanda's World Brotherhood Colonies ideal.