#2,878

The improvised idea shines and then goes out.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,828

We are fully convinced only by the idea that does not need arguments to convince us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,748

Between the causes of a revolution and its realization in actions ideologies insert themselves which end up determining the course and even the nature of events.
“Ideas” do not “cause” revolutions, but channel them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441

#2,741

Certain ideas are only clear when formulated, but others are only clear when alluded to.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,661

Few ideas do not turn pale before a fixed glare.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,452

The public does not begin to welcome an idea except when intelligent contemporaries begin to abandon it.
No light reaches the masses but that of dead stars.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,434

In the modern world it is not contrary ideas that confront each other but mere candidates for the possession of the same goods.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,430

Only the distortions of a political idea caused by the circumstances in which it acts are recorded in history.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,385

The invention is invented once for all times.
The idea must be reinvented each time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,303

The ages in which original ideas grow scarce devote themselves to reviving errors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,293

Ideas try to look younger with the years and only the most ancient achieve immortal youth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 372

#2,192

Concepts do not seem precise except to a man who has a merely external experience of the facts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#2,148

There are ideas that call us and leave, like the beating of wings on a window during the night.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 350

#2,085

Whoever does not simultaneously play upon the board of maximum generality and the board of maximum particularity knows nothing of the game of ideas.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 337

#1,940

Living among opinions, one forgets the importance of a simple difference in accent between ideas.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,896

Liberal ideas are likeable.
Their consequences ruinous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,862

There are no ideas that expand the intelligence, but there are ideas that shrink it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,753

Reducing another’s thought to its supposed motives prevents us from understanding it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 290

#1,738

The man who says he is respectful of all ideas is admitting that he is ready to give in.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288

#1,735

New ideas tend to be an ember stirred up by new gusts of the spirit.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 288