Quotes About Idea

Also, Lovelock's radical idea—pay attention to the atmosphere and look for drastic departures from the expected mixture of gases—now forms the cornerstone of our life-detection strategies.

However consistent the world may be, allowing certain suppositions and conjectures, with the idea of such a Deity, it can never afford us an inference concerning his existence.

They are consequently conjoined with each other in the conception; and the general idea of a line, notwithstanding all our abstractions and refinements, has in its appearance in the mind a precise degree of quantity and quality; however it may be made to represent others, which have different degrees of both.

Así, cuando afirmamos que Dios existe nos formamos simplemente la idea de un ser tal como nos es presentado, y la existencia que le atribuimos no es concebida por una idea particular que unamos a la idea de sus otras cualidades y que pueda nuevamente ser separada y distinguida de ellas.

La creencia debe agradar a la imaginación por medio de la fuerza y vivacidad que la acompaña, ya que toda idea que posee fuerza y vivacidad encontramos que es agradable a esta facultad.

No tenemos una idea perfecta de nada más que de una percepción. Una substancia es enteramente diferente de una percepción. Por consiguiente, no tenemos una idea de substancia.

It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind controlled and onlyslightly more conscious than your average zombie. Far fetched? No, no. I define mind control as the manipulation of someone's mind so that they think, and therefor act, the way you want them to.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

Aaronow: Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just…Moss: No, we're just…Aaronow: We're just "talking" about it.Moss: We're just speaking about it. (Pause.) As an idea.Aaronow: As an idea.Moss: Yes.Aaronow: We're not actually talking about it.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God's idea of God, and God's idea of God is Christ

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

That's all an angel is....an idea of God.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.