Idea

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.

(Salman Rushdie)

»No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.«

(Friedrich Von Schlegel)

“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”

(H.G. Wells)

»No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.«

(Ellen Glasgow)

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

(Michel de Montaigne)

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

(Marcel Proust)

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.

(Salman Rushdie)

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.

(Salman Rushdie)