I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Terror is suicide for the very idea that uses it.
“You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea because you forget that the good idea has limits.”
— Benjamin Graham
“You’re likely to make the most money with the ideas that are the simplest.”
– Mohnish Pabrai
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
—Socrates
The individual’s duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
—Voltaire
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
—Nikolai Gogol
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
—Stephen Hawking
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
—Pablo Picasso
The best ideas are common property.
—Seneca
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
—Thomas Jefferson
When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think
—Georg Hegel
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
—Georg Hegel
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
—Immanuel Kant
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
—Isaac Newton
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not an idea; but a literal, historic fact.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.
We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense.
But why must it be?
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt