#ideas

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ↗

— George Berkeley

#being #created #dependency #existence #find

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ↗

— George Berkeley

#body #every #exist #formed #ideas

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#before #cent #danger #deal #die

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#business #cannot #creative #does #flourish

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now? ↗

— Adyashanti

#reality #thoughts #imagination

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then. ↗

— Bert Dodson

#imagination #imagination

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ↗

— John Milton

#censorship #ideas #intellect #life

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. ↗

— William James

#education #ideas #education

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#beliefs #criticism #criticize #freedom #freedom-of-speech

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?" Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#ideas #psychology #love