Carl Sagan Quotes, Christian Quotes, Ideas Quotes

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

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The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

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What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

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China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

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No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

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Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

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My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

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I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

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Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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