Quotes About Ideas

The old ideas don't satisfy the new generation any longer, while the old generations are unable to accept and assimilate the new ideas.

Là dove si danno alle fiamme i libri, si finisce per bruciare anche gli uomini»,

I could have tuned myself into sleep, but I had an idea that if I stared into space and tried not to think about the things that were currently bothering me, I might be giving my subsconscious time to work on the problem.

Three explosions in three days, and not even one of them had been Closs's idea.

Why is your species so full of horrible ideas?

That our understanding of theology is based largely on formal, academic treatises has resulted in excluding women from the theological conversation, marginalizing their theological ideas, and impoverishing the theological tradition as a whole.

I hold this happiness between me and You,' and, if they were, then that was instinct too, the instinct humans must have, despite all their ideas about a just and loving God, to preserve themselves from that God's unloving love of perfection, His exacting beneficence.

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Yet practice theory tells us that behaviour rarely changes simply as a result of challenges to ideas, values and attitudes. So

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Plotinus was also the most relentlessly antimaterialist thinker in history. He taught his disciples that everything we see or imagine to be real is actually only a series of faded images of a higher realm of pure ideas and pure spirit, intelligible only to the soul. According to his student Porphyry of Tyre, he was even sorry that his soul had to live inside a physical body.

two-thousand-year struggle for the soul of Western civilization, which today extends to all civilizations: a struggle born from an act of rebellion. It came around 360 BCE, when the young Aristotle, son of the court doctor of the Macedonian kings, turned against the ideas of his famous teacher, Plato of Athens, and set out to create a school of his own.

It was shortly after arriving in Alexandria that Strato of Lampsacus became King Ptolemy's principal adviser on all matters intellectual and scientific. Over the next several years, he would use that position to create the ancient world's most important research center, Alexandria's Mouseion, or Museum. Just as Alexandria was Aristotle's city, so its Museum would be the centrifuge for spreading Aristotle's methods and ideas across the ancient world.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature.

Embrutecidos en sus pequeñas miserias, sin ver más allá. Sin desear la aurora de las ideas que les liberen... Ajenos a cuanto no sea comer, beber, reñir, dormir y procrear.

O sea, que la República debe resistir hasta la última gota de tu sangre. —Y de la tuya. —Prefiero que sea de la tuya… Tú eres el hombre de acción, Simón. Lo mío son las ideas, ya sabes. La política. —Se lo recordaré a los fascistas cuando vengan y pregunten.

Si nos pusiéramos a enumerar las series de las grandes ideas originales que el hombre ha alumbrado a lo largo de su historia, nos encontraríamos que son relativamente pocas y casi nunca enteramente originales. Las más cautivantes ideologías que ha producido Occidente son hijas de mil padres y siempre es posible hallar sus más remotas raíces en algún fragmento de un filósofo griego.

Understanding is the level immediately below Wisdom. It is on the level of Understanding that ideas exist separately, where they can be scrutinized and comprehended. While Wisdom is pure undifferentiated Mind, Understanding is the level where division exists, and where things are delineated and defined as separated objects.

These 32 paths are said to be paths of Wisdom (Chakhmah). In a Kabbalistic sense, Wisdom is seen as pure, undifferentiated Mind.20 It is pure thought, which has not yet been broken up into differentiated ideas. Wisdom is the level above all division, where everything is a simple unity.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

Durante os dois primeiros anos do ensino secundário, eu tinha apenas dois cadernos e quase nada estava escrito neles. Era difícil adaptar-me a uma educação que não provocava a minha inteligência. Alguns, naquela época, vendo o meu aparente desinteresse, achavam que eu não seria nada na vida. Mas dentro de mim, havia uma explosão de ideias. Pensar era uma aventura que me encantava.» Pergaminho, 2004: p. 72