#idea

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#idealistic #life #ones #poetry #treated

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#fraternity #friendship #history #ideal #international

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#artists #ideas #life #poets #reality

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#awe #complement #hope #ideals #inspires

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#creative #creative work #examines #hinders #ideas

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#culture #decade #existential #how #idea

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#guns #ideas #life #plans #protection

I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#adopted #am #another #child #comes

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#bring #controlled #cut #economy #ideas

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals. ↗

— Tony Judt

#ideals #right #wrong #home