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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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

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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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Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!

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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

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It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do - though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!

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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

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You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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