#ideas

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve. ↗

— Brian Eno

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All good ideas arrive by chance. ↗

— Max Ernst

#chance #good #good ideas #ideas

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual life

The good ideas will survive. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#good ideas #ideas #survive #will

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

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