A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.
Ideas Quotes
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.
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?
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Let one thousand flowers bloom.
