American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to… — John Hench Copy Share Image
It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
I often get attacked in Saudi Arabia, but the critics don't ridicule my ideas. There were about 30 or 40 articles attacking… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
“It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and… — Mackenzie Astin Copy Share Image
I can't see the point in being in politics if you're not yourself. If you're simply interested in implementing other people's policies,… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I think it's important for women to have a means to get health care. I think it's important that women have a… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed. — Jan Burke Copy Share Image
i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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