Attraction Quote by Jim Holt Download Open image “You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas.” — Jim Holt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attraction Danger Dangerous Dangerous ideas Ideas
Ideas are sometimes dangerous, because it only leads to action, where the action leads, no man can say. — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo,… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Consistency is the virtue of small minds, and Spinoza had a great mind—he was inconsistent all over the place.” — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“(It is interesting that the words “cosmos” and “cosmetic” have the same root, the Greek word for “adornment” or “arrangement.”)” — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it. — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“To begin with, if existence arose out of a need for goodness, then it must be essentially mental. In other words, existence must ultimately… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“In both jokes and dreams, Freud observed, meanings are condensed and displaced, things are represented indirectly or by their opposites, fallacious reasoning trumps logic.… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“In 1921, a New York rabbi asked Einstein if he believed in God. "I believe in Spinoza's God," he answered, "who reveals himself in… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“I really don’t like to formulate what I believe because, like a quantum phenomenon, it varies from day to day, and anyway there’s a… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
