Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
I just liked the idea of being engaged.
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.
It's not the beauty that's important, it's the idea that is important.
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.
Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him...
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Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers were explorers. They wanted us to be as well. They thought we should understand this physical world, but not get stuck here. For thousands of years we have shared their insights, over-analyzed and repeated ...
I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to me than the silhouette of a formidable old woman dressed in black who appeared occasionally at family gatherings and made us feel tha...
This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the o...
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