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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.