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“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.”

Ideas Self Religion Attitude Creation Expression Infinite Mere Individuality Endless Variety Poetry Is Self Expression

Book:Tagore

Source: Tagore

“Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.”

Ideas Brain Expression Pure Fancy Pants

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Different Matter Progress Expression Evolution Method Following Theme

Author:Pablo Picasso

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.”

Should Ideas Moving Movement Expression Great Idea

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.”

Mind Mean Ideas Feelings Objects Expression Pure Conscious Accepted Meaningless Worthless Conscious Mind

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.”

Giving Art Ideas Whole School Form Successful Heard Expression Foundation Works Of Art Select Obscurity Languish

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.”

Art Ideas Play Expression Asking Wrestler Charades

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.”

World Wells Ideas Actors Struggle Emotional Expression Silent Rely Explain Yourself Emotional Expression

Author:Guy Pearce

“A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition, and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.”

Ideas Different Sometimes Used Expression Phrases Lazy Formulas Repetition Contradictory Felicity

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.”

Feels Ideas Real Reality Form Lying Behinds Issues Example Expression Draws Destruction Appearance Drawing Visuals Urges Capture Erase Outward Appearance

Author:Antoni Tapies

“The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression.”

Ifs Ideas Self Moving Individual Strong Answers Creativity Creative Fields Ready Expression Critics Self Worth Creative Expression My Self Worth Moving Out

Author:Angeles Arrien

“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”

People Giving Years May Littles Persons Ideas Young Values Expression Thousand Thousand Years Gifted Preventing Pretext

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.”

Thinking Ideas Moments Truth Expression Abuse Collectives Excess Suspicious Exaggerated

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.”

Men Doe Ideas Expression Musical

Book:The path to the new music

Source: The path to the new music

“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”

Humans Wells Ideas Ends Social Common Democracy Journey Expression Source Drink Essentials Ethics Crowds Heat Human Experience Identification Draught

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study.”

Book Ideas Young Choices Names Study Greater Worst Expression Female Narrative Breasts Young Women Brothels

Book:The Monk

Source: The Monk

“Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.”

Firsts Important Ideas Century College Expression Duty Protect Censorship Speakers Free Expression Newsworthy

Author:Greg Lukianoff

“If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.”

People Ifs Want Feels Believe Ideas I Believe Building Expression Projects Architecture Drawing No Idea Architect

Author:Lebbeus Woods

“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.”

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'”

“Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.”

Ideas Facts Law Expression Statistics Newton Gravitation Newton's Laws

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.”

Mind Ideas Faces Expression Arguing Enthusiasm Indifference Gentleman Sensibility Flexibility Refinement Enlargement Presence Of Mind

Author:William Hazlitt

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.”

People Believe Humans Ideas Belief I Believe Religious Practice Support Rights Expression Human Rights Womens Rights Freedom Of Expression Religious Belief Compatible No Respect

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow.”

Giving Mind Doe Ideas Body Style Expression Weight Blow Impression Iron Strokes

Author:William Melmoth

“Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.”

Ideas Film Expression Cinematic

Author:Francois Truffaut

“The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.”

Thinking Art Ideas Matter Beautiful Artist Language Expression Disappear Thoughtful Works Of Art Finest

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Form Spirit Literature Pleasure Cases Example Expression Letters Originals Dresses Critical Substance New Ideas Deprived Cliche Commonplace Often Is

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”

“Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.”

World Wells Ideas Helping Christian Form This World Expression Morality Stress Lays Inward Christian Freedom

Author:Meister Eckhart

“The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.”

Knows Ideas Technology Know How Expression Music Is Built Instruments Hyper Being Played

Author:Tod Machover

“Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.”

Two Ideas Together Found Wish Style Produce Expression Cost Spring Faults Confusion Reasoning Obscurity Propriety Dazzle Diction Sophistry

Book:Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.”

Ifs Ideas Belief Energy Differences Justice Results Opinion Movement Expression Birth Offers Enthusiasm Speakers Incitement

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.”

Want Mind Ideas States Feelings Expression Amount Prosperity What You Want Feel Good About Yourself State Of Mind

Author:Louise Hay

“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!”

Thinking Men Mind Ideas Light Able Evil Freedom Expression Brave Coward Primitive Fascists Freedom Of Thought Freedom Of Expression Cockroaches

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!”

Men Ideas Hate Three Speak Freedom Stupid Expression Fool Circumstances Honour Three Things Freedom Of Expression

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.”

Thinking Want Ideas Soul Government Loses Technology Cutting Expression Regret Edges China Nevertheless Suicidal Freedom Of Expression Cutting Edge

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays

“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.”

Way Doe Ideas Wish Causes Liberty Willing Expression Indifference Free Will Faculty Void Wish You Unworthy Chimera Scholastics

Author:Voltaire

“Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.”

Art Made Ideas Found Process Perfect Inspiring Design Expression Products Art Is Foundation Visuals Vehicle Verbs Nouns Design And Art Product Design

Author:Paul Rand

“All good management is the expression of one great idea”

Ideas Business Expression Management Good Man Great Idea

Author:Robert Heller

“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.”

World Book Ideas Character Feelings Emotion Expression Intense Binary Intense Emotions

Author:Richard Powers

“The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.”

Ideas Whole Expression Criticism Free Expression

Author:Garry Wills

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