Ideas Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image “One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ideas
“There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
