Ideal. Ideas.

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Ideal
The ideal man feels no malice and forgets injuries.
Ideal person 79 Aristotle's ideal man: …never feels malice, and always forgets and passes over injuries. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Aristotle.

The ideal man is never vehement because for him nothing is so terribly important.
Ideal person 79 Aristotle's ideal man: …is not prone to vehemence, for he thinks nothing very important. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Aristotle.

The ideal man delights in solitude.
Ideal person 79 Aristotle's ideal man: …is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Aristotle.

The ideal person has energy, intellect and pride.
Ideal person 427 Nietzsche: Energy, intellect, and pride—these make the superman. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Nietzsche.

The ideal person creates something beyond himself and then dies.
Ideal person 445 [Nietzsche] Zarathustra: “I love him who willeth the creation of something beyond himself, and then perisheth.” Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Nietzsche.

Idealism, not materialism, is the curse of the world.
Idealism 211 It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world…but idealism. Mencken, Minority Report.

JFK: idealist without illusions.
Idealist 24 Jackie on JFK: ...an idealist without illusions. Sorenson, Kennedy

Ideas
The addition of ideas through the centuries does change the intellectual climate.
Ideas 208 The accretion of ideas through the centuries does change the intellectual climate. Eiseley, The Star Thrower.

The [JF] Kennedy people respected ideas.
Ideas 668 A…component of the Kennedy image was respect for ideas. Schlesinger, A Thousand Days

An idea is a gift.
Ideas 151 “An idea comes like a gift, and one must pursue it no matter its source.” Christianson, Fox at the Wood’s Edge: Loren Eiseley

Ideas can be buried and come back at a more propitious time.
Ideas 124 Like a mutation, an idea may be recorded in the wrong time, to lie latent like a recessive gene and spring once more to life in an auspicious era. Eiseley, The Star Thrower

JFK was interested in the practical use of ideas.
Ideas 15 “An interest in ideas and in their practical uses...came naturally to him [Kennedy].” Arthur Holcombe, Professor of Government. Sorenson, Kennedy

The only flaw in his idea was that it had to be carried out by real people in real places.
Ideas 84 The only flaw in this scheme was that it had to be carried out by real people at some real place on earth. Boorstin, The Americans: Colonial Experience

The birth of a new idea is high drama.
Ideas vii …the birth of the new idea is…drama of the highest order. Foreword. Sir Lawrence Bragg. Watson, The Double Helix.

The repressed idea will come back strong.
Ideas 347 The repressed idea takes its revenge…. Irving Stone, The Passions of the Mind (Life of Freud).

We need people who can think new thoughts without having to prove them.
Ideas 368 …we cannot do without men with the courage to think new thoughts before they can prove them. Irving Stone, The Passions of the Mind (Life of Freud).

When people do not want new ideas it is because they are not prepared for them.
Ideas 397 Nobody wants [these ideas] because nobody is prepared for them. Irving Stone, The Passions of the Mind (Life of Freud).

Ideas lie dormant until their time comes.
Ideas 288 And how many ideas there have been on earth in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared…when their destined hour had come, they came forth and spread over the whole earth. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

A new idea stimulates a physical reaction in the thinker.
Ideas 313 Baudelaire said that when an idea shot through his mind his muscles quivered with impatience and his eyes shone like a tiger stalking its prey. Clark, Civilization.

Ideas must be completed by actions.
Ideas 177 Spinoza: Every idea becomes an action unless stopped in the transition by a different idea; the idea is itself the first stage of a unified organic process of which external action is the completion. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Spinoza.

Ideas are the beginning of action; action is the last stage of an idea.
Ideas 375 Spencer: An idea is the first stage of an action, an action is the last stage of an idea. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Herbert Spencer.

To find the meaning of an idea, we must anticipate its consequences.
Ideas 511 To find the meaning of an idea, said Peirce, we must examine the consequences to which it leads in action. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, William James.

No man fears age, misfortune or death if he lives in the world of ideas.
Ideas 37 No man fears age or misfortune or death in their serene company [of ideas], for he is transported out of the district of change. Emerson, Nature.

We assume that everything worth thinking has already been set down and all we do is repeat it.
Ideas 101 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...and what we say, we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature. Emerson, Literary Ethics.

Ideas have a way of appearing when their time has come.
Ideas 129 Has anything been done?...Who did it?...plainly not any man, but all men: it was the prevalence and inundation of an idea. Emerson, Method of Nature.

We need to listen for the voices who do not express what everyone else is saying.
Ideas 208 ...when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute, or a subscription of stock, for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry, for a new house or a larger business, for a political party, or the division of an estate—will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable? Emerson, The Transcendentalist.

Some thoughts keep us young.
Ideas 388 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Emerson, The Over-Soul.

Ideas seem to take me unawares and I lose them because I have nothing to attach them to.
Ideas 362 But I am displeased with my mind in that it ordinarily brings forth its deepest ideas, its wildest, and those which I like the best, unexpectedly and when I am seeking them the least; and then they suddenly vanish, having at the moment nothing to which to attach themselves; on horse back, at table, in bed, but mostly on horseback where my thoughts range most widely. Montaigne, Selected Essays.

He wrote on whatever was available so as not to lose an idea.
Ideas 967 …snatching whatever material was nearest, so as to seize the first glimpse of an idea that might vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Hawthorne, The Marble Faun.

Ideas that circulate through all generations keep civilization alive.
Ideas 164 Albert Schweitzer: ...because of the ideas conceived and circulated generation after generation civilization endures, progresses, and deepens. Anderson, The Schweitzer Album.

Intuitions are sometimes the sources of ideas.
Ideas 100 …the abrupt, unaccountable aggregation of random notions, intuitions, known in science as good ideas…. L. Thomas, Lives of a Cell.

The Quaker view of the Indians was unrealistic, inflexible and based on false beliefs about human nature.
Ideas and experience 54 But the Quakers’ view of the Indian was of a piece with their attitude toward war...unrealistic, inflexible and based on false premises about human nature. Boorstin, The Americans: Colonial Experience

People who never doubt their dogmas and don’t compare dogmas to experience likely suffer defeat.
Ideas and experience 48 Men who set too much store for their dogmas and who will not allow themselves to be guided by the give-and-take between ideas and experience are likely to suffer defeat.... Boorstin, The Americans: Colonial Experience