Ideas Quotes

We think that success equals happiness, but this idea is an illusion.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

I never liked the idea of being a rebel.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.