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The test of a first-fate intelligen…

23 Sep , 2021  

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. Great short quote and quotation by: F. Scott […]

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The test of a first-rate intelligen…

23 Sep , 2021  

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. Great short quote and quotation by: F. Scott Fitzgerald , US novelist (1896 – 1940)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)

The test of a first-rate intelligen…

23 Sep , 2021  

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. Great short quote and quotation by: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” (1936) , US novelist (1896 – 1940)

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William Lippmann

The thinker dies, but his thoughts …

2 Sep , 2020  

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. Great short quote and quotation by: William Lippmann ,

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)

The ultimate good desired is better…

24 Sep , 2019  

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919) , US jurist (1841 – […]

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William O. Douglas

The way to combat noxious ideas is …

25 Jan , 2017  

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. Great short quote and quotation by: William O. Douglas , US jurist (1898 – 1980)

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Samuel P. Huntington

The West won the world not by the s…

25 Jan , 2017  

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel P. Huntington ,

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Emile Chartier

There are only two kinds of scholar…

3 May , 2016  

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. Great short quote and quotation by: Emile Chartier ,

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Diane Ackerman

There are well-dressed foolish idea…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Great short quote and quotation by: Diane Ackerman ,

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Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)

There is no connection between the …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. Great short quote and quotation by: Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950) ,

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The National, Paris, 1850

There is no law against composing m…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal Great short quote and quotation by: The National, Paris, 1850 ,

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing easier than loppin…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. Great short quote and quotation by: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Russian novelist (1821 – 1881)

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