An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave.
Ideas Quotes
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant… There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the saddle again, at every parenthesis.
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence, it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been divided as fools and madmen.
