Ideas

Gustave Le Bon

It's easier to dominate a people by exciting their passions than by looking after their interests.

Gustave Le Bon

If atheism spreads, it'll become just as intolerable a religion as the ancients.

Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Albert Einstein

If the idea isn't at first completely absurd, it doesn't have a chance.

Albert Einstein

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

Ronald Reagan

An economist is someone who, on being shown something that works in practice, wonders if it would work in theory

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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