According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosm….

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise….

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book..

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but eve….

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights..

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference..

Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers wav….

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these perso….

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done..

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different director….

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea..

I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person b….

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous..

There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one p….

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory..

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be….

Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaole….

Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a n….

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong..

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see….

I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some peri….