“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God”
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“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God”
“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”
“If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problem”
“We have to be creative and think of ways to make the airport more than just an airport. We need to think of ways to make it an economic-development hub”
“The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them”
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him”
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change”
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”
“A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.”
“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid”
“You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought”
“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist”
“A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing”
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common”
“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”