Basic Ideas Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. — Alfred North Whitehead
• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
• One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. — Larry Wall
• The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain… — Muhammad Iqbal
• ...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality… — Thomas Mann
• The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas;… — Henry Louis Mencken

Who Wrote These Basic Ideas Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Basic Ideas Quotes as follows:

• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by James Burnham
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Kate Wilhelm
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Larry Wall
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Diane Ackerman
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Thomas Mann
• 1 Basic Ideas Quote by Henry Louis Mencken