Lawrence Durrell Quotes

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.

You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.

I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

Concepts antedate facts.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.