The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
Ideas Quotes
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and the improvement of his conditions, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like […]
In a war of ideas it is the people who get killed.
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to those of Jesus.
I wish there were some cure, like the lover’s leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
The only big ideas I’ve ever had have come from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled, by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a […]
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it.
If it is unlawful to urge that an idea be carried out, is it also unlawful to state it academically and point out its possible merits?
