philosophy of ideas Quotes

The idea is more important than the object.

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.