Quotes About Idea

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It's in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.

Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

You don't need a million dollar to start a business. You just need a simple idea to make Billions