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Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une ide e, quand on n'a qu'une ide e. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believenot empirically, alas, but only theoreticallythat for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve rite . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter nosesthanourselves, isnot a pretty thing when you look into it too much.What redeems it is an idea only.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
People in nutrition do get the idea that theyare going to live to be150. And they never do.
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that ideapossessing themthat what has been said has still not been said enough.
Agnoscam fieri non posse ut existam talis naturae qualis sum, nempe ideam Dei in me habens, nisi revera Deus etiam existeret, Deus, inquam, ille idem cujus idea in me est. I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow.
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worryabout the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to do the work.
You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.
Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him. 331
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my countryand betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.
It is onlya mild exaggeration to say that now no one wants Fine Artists, except Fine Artists, and that neither they nor anyone else have the slightest idea what they should be doing, or for whom they should be doing it.
The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored itan additional tactic in this strategy of defenseis to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.
What do I thinkof Western civilization? I think that it would be a good idea.
The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.
It's better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
The thing is to find a truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.
Every race which has become self-conscious and idea- bound in the past has perished.
The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry, is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the workall planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctoryaffair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.
'Dying for an idea,'again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
Alligators have the right idea, they eat their young.
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba even before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
A vida e ta o bela que a mesma ide ia da morte precisa de vir primeiro a ela, antes de se ver cumprida. Ja me va s entendendo; le" agora outro cap|tulo. Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.You must already understand. Now read another chapter.
That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.
did you ever notice that when a politician doesget an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled mefor all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honourable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of a panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician; ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an ideawhether a good one or a bad one.
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
L'ide e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible, and is something that no one with a spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obeya Government that is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Nempe falluntur homines, quod se liberos esse putant; quae opinioinhoc soloconsistit, quodsuarum actionum sint conscii, et ignari causarum, a quibus determinantur. Haec ergo est eorum libertatis idea, quod suarum actionum nullam cognoscant causam. Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; and this opinion consists of this alone, that theyare conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined. This, therefore, is their idea of liberty, that they should know no cause of their actions.
NempeAmor nihil aliud est, quam Laeititia concomitante idea causae externae; et Odium nihil aliud est, quamTristitia concomitante idea causae externae. Love is nothing else than pleasure accompanied by the idea of anexternal cause; and hatepainaccompanied by the idea of an external cause.
The first idea was not our own.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had alwaysgone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.
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