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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era’s dominant ideas.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Ideas control the world.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.