Quotes About Idea

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an Idea began to play in divine self-consciousness.

Fundamental in Hölderlin's scheme is the idea that poesy is indispensable to the world; nay, more, that it is not merely a creation within the cosmos, but itself creates the cosmos.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.

Truth happens to an idea

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

Don't make the Divine a nincompoop's idea, of being a man-like entity. What you see here is merely a wandering whirlwind of Infinity.

You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.

It was a marvelous idea, and he backed away from it, giving it space; you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out.

Anybody who relished the idea of being a juror was blue ink all the way.

Of course the auto companies discarded it-it's a good idea. Don't want any good ideas coming out of a big company. Might lead to a good product!

The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

I almost think the better the idea, and the more iconoclastic the investor, the more likely you will get screamed at by investors, he [Michael Burry] said.

To defend the Club against the new idea, the members had to distort the idea. By the end of the 2003 baseball season I had learned something from publishing Moneyball. I learned that if you look long enough for an argument against reason you will find it.