Idea Quotes

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower,

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you’re literally a creative collagist? You’re taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea… The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.