Quotes about Idea

It was the theory of the week. For about a year.

There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Maximus expressly says that the Incarnation—more precisely, the drama of Cross, grave, and Resurrection—is not only the midpoint of world history but the foundational idea of the world itself.

This synthesis of God and the world is a divine idea, which is older and more deeply hidden than all things and for which everything else remains simply an approach, a means of achievement.64

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

Jesus is not manufacturing a new idea for human relationships or the church. His prayer reflects what God's design has always been.

One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.