A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
Ideas are more powerful than people.
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.