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“The world is idea.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“The imagination has the command over all its ideas, and can join and mix and vary them, in all the ways possible.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the...” Jonathan Swift, “Gulliver's Travels” - 1726

“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“Words, in their immediate Signification, are the sensible Signs of his Ideas who uses them.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ” Neil Gaiman, “Where do you get your ideas?” - 1997

“Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child—I feel I'm...” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so in fact.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones” John Maynard Keynes, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” - 1936

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

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