To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Men die but an idea does not.