Every intentional act is a magical act..

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution..

Love comes from the strangest places..

The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an….

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally….

The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should nev….

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder..

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who….

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me..

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to con….

If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in six….

The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out ….

The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner..

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know w….

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding mor….

We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to ne….

My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well..

All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later spar….