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"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being."


"By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."


"The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed."


"The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux."


"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."
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