Literary notes about Actualize (AI summary)
In literature, the term "actualize" is deployed to capture the transformative process of making a latent potential or abstract idea manifest in concrete reality. Writers use it to denote both the internal drive to bring one's visions or dreams into existence—as when one is urged to envision and then actualize a desired state of being [1, 2]—and the more metaphysical unfolding of inherent potentialities into definitive forms, such as the realization of divine plans or ethical ideals [3, 4, 5]. This multifaceted use underscores a spectrum of creative, psychological, and philosophical endeavors where the act of actualizing bridges the gap between possibility and lived experience [6, 7, 8, 9].
- Get a mind picture of what you want, what you want to be, what you want to do, THEN ACTUALIZE IT.
— from Supreme Personality: Fun in Living. A Doubt, Fear, and Worry Cure by Delmer Eugene Croft - You’ve made it possible for us to actualize our greatest dream.
— from The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick - There must therefore be an external agent, itself actual, to actualize a potential.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik - These relations form a rational system in which intelligent free activity is to actualize a divine plan of excellence and well-being.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine - The ethical task is to fulfil the moral law, to actualize the ethical ideal in conduct and character.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine - Whatever we fix our attention upon, or whatever it is that we idealize, our sub-conscious mind endeavours to actualize and make real in our life.
— from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin - Education is the influencing of man by man, and it has for its end to lead him to actualize himself through his own efforts.
— from Pedagogics as a System by Karl Rosenkranz - But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.
— from In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine - The whole universal process of things is nothing but the struggle of reason to express itself, to actualize itself, to become existent in the world.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
