#ideas

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#charge #escalation #everybody #getting #going

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#christ #contradiction #extraordinary #figure #i

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. ↗

— Paul Valery

#ideas #never #people #serious #serious-minded

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. ↗

— Eugene Field

#came #explosive #extreme #human #human thought

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anxiety #ideas #impersonal #philosophy #refuge

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

#better #get #i #i can #ideas

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #bear #bewildered #bizarre #design

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#between #choose #conventional #down #i

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#am #aware #because #endeavour #extent

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #anything #astronomy #cannot #certain