#idea

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#deal #development #doing #here #idea

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#effect #faintest #going #hadn #having

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#goodness #idea #plato #stands #supreme

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#example #for example #idea #immediately #indeed

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#because #become #derive #her #his

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#elements #i #i think #ideal #magic

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. ↗

— David Blaine

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