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Ideas Quotes by Gottfried Leibniz
- There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths…
- ...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext…
- I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason,…
- When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
- Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which…
- It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in…
- When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe