| Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. -- Charles Brower |
| Author:
Brower, CharlesEra:
1901 |
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| He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. -- Euripides |
| Author:
EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg |
| Author:
Lichtenberg, Georg C.Era:
1742 |
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| He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. -- John Ruskin |
| Author:
Ruskin, JohnEra:
1819 |
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| When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. -- Epictetus |
| Author:
EpictetusEra:
50 |
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| Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Henry Ward Beecher Stowe |
| Author:
Stowe, Harriet Ward BeecherEra:
1811 |
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| A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. -- Helen Rowland |
| Author:
Rowland, HelenEra:
1875 |
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| idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. -- Aldous Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, AldousEra:
1894 |
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| Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. -- Josh Billings |
| Author:
Billings, JoshEra:
1818 |
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| Words are but the signs of ideas. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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