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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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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!"
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
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