Robert Frost Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Association Quotes

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

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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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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

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It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

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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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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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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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There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

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To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

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One must speak about serious things seriously.

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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

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When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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