Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
