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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When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

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But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

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I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.

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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

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I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

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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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The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

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

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We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

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Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

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I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

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I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

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