The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.