I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea, i….

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to b….

It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feeli….

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has pas….

It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of god….

Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance. It's gott….

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things….

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler..

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and say….

I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not jus….

Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of pres….

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know ….

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpo….

Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go into t….

I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over h….

The idea that somehow we're better off today than the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States is totally an alternative ….

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a liber….

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea..

Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selecti….

And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least i….

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale..