The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
Ideas Quotes
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.
Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.
An cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Sometimes we’re exchanging ideas, and sometimes we’re just spraymarking.
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions.
