Ideas Quotes

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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times… — Marcel Proust
The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that… — Joseph Campbell
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts. — Francis Picabia
The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is… — Adolf Hitler
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein
I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God. — Ernst Mayr
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be… — Francis Crick
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters… — Daniel Dennett
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method… — Richard P. Feynman
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger… — Sigmund Freud
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and… — John Shelby Spong
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of… — Paul Davies
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.… — T. Boone Pickens
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate… — Wayne Dyer
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would… — Max Born
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in… — C.S. Lewis
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual… — Albert Einstein
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of… — Charles Darwin
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and… — David Hume

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