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;void(0)) . . . IDAHO see "PLACES" for related links Dice 'em, hash 'em, boil 'em, mash 'em! Idaho, Idaho, Idaho! --former Idaho football cheer, quoted in Charles Kuralt _Dateline America_ [1979] At the gambling casinos in Ketchum, they took the big beautiful wheels off the roulette tables at the end of play every night and locked them up. Why? Because if they didn't people would come in and paste numbers on the wheel -- say three or four 27s -- and then play that number the following night, and it would be quite a while before the dealer realized what had happened. --Ernie Pyle (1900-1945) American journalist, war correspondent, and winner of a 1944 Pulitzer, _Home Country_ [1947]  . . . see "BELIEF" for related links The accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence... So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it. ... It is only those who do not understand the American people who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element in all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. That is the only motive to which they give any strong and lasting reaction. --Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923-1929], in his "The chief business of the American people is business" speech No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister [1940-1945, 1951-1955] Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. --John Galsworthy (1867-1933) British author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. --Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist. __Erinnerungen, Trδume, Gedanken_ (Memories, Dreams, Reflections), ch. 12. [1963] I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American civil rights leader, speech in Detroit [23 June 1963] When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) American-born man of letters, _Afterthoughts_ [1931] "Other People" From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. --Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992) Austrian-born British economist, _The Road to Selfdom_ [1944] We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish playwright and poet, _Lady Windermere's Fan_ [1892] . . see "BELIEF" for related links see "SUCCESS" for related links It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples can sweep down the mightiest walls of repression and resistance. --Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) American Democratic politician. {"Day of Affirmation" address, University of Capetown, South Africa, [6 June 1966]. The first two sentences of this quotation are inscribed on the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite in Arlington National Cemetary - Q.} The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heart breaks. --Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese writer and philogist. _Between Tears and Laughter_, p. 6 [1943, 2005 ed.] He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. --Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) American journalist. _A Preface to Morals_ [1929] You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low. --Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) American actor and playwright. Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-1909].  IDEAS . . see "THE MIND" for related links Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. --Edward Abbey (19271989) American author. _A Voice Crying in the Wilderness_ (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) [1989], ch. 3, "Government and Politics" Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. --Mortimer J. Adler (19022001) American philosopher, educator, and editor. _Saturday Review_ [22 November 1958] Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have. --Alain (18681951) [pseudonym of Ιmile-Auguste Chartier] French poet and philosopher. _Propos sur la religion_ [1938] Timeo hominem unius libri. (Beware of the man of one book.) --St. Thomas Aquinas (12251274) Catholic philosopher and theologian. A new idea does not gain acceptance by convincing its opponents. A new idea gains acceptance because its opponents eventually die and a new generation is born that is familiar with it. --attributed toNiels Bohr (18851962) Danish physicist. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or by a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. --Charles Brower It is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds of his experience and the power of his imagination. But this natural liberty of private thinking is of little value. It is unsatisfactory and even painful to the thinker himself, if he is not permitted to communicate his thoughts to others, and it is obviously of no value to his neighbors. Moreover it is extremely difficult to hide thoughts that have any power over the mind. If a man's thinking leads him to call in question ideas and customs which regulate the behavior of those about him, to reject the beliefs which they hold, to see better ways of life than those they follow, it is almost impossible for him, if he is convinced of the truth of his own reasoning, not to betray by silence, chance words, or general attitude that he is different from them and does not share their opinions. Some have preferred, like Socrates, some would prefer today, to face death rather than conceal their thoughts. Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech. --J. B. [John Bagnell] Bury (18611927) American historian, classical scholar, and philologist. 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. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. In "Esquire" [February 1936] _The Crack-Up_. In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Histoire d'un Crime_ [1877] That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. On a 'dull, tiresome' acquaintance, quoted by Rev. Dr. Maxwell [1770] in James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. --Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) Swiss psychologist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. --John Maynard Keynes (18831946) English economist. _General Theory_ [1947 ed.] New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. --John Locke (16321704) English political and educational philosopher. "An Essay concerning Human Understanding" [1690] An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. --Don Marquis (18781937) American poet and journalist. Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. --Bill Meyer That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. --attributed to John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build. --Sean O'Casey (18801964) Irish dramatist and memorist. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. --Hyman G. Rickover (19001986) American naval officer and engineer who developed the world's first nuclear-powered engines and the first atomic-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, launched in 1954 {EB}. In _The Saturday Evening Post_ [28 November 1959] The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. --Carl Sagan (19341996) American astronomer and author. You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _Back to Methuselah_ [1921] Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. --Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18791953), Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death. The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. 32, epigraph. The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. ----- chimera (noun) 1: A mythical fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail. Similar: monster, Gorgon 2: a fantastic, often horrible, idea or image produced by the mind. Synonyms: specter, apparition, phantasm, phantom Similar: monster, bugbear, bogeyman, hallucination, nightmare, bugaboo crotchet (noun) An odd, whimsical, or stubborn notion. Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk felicitous fuh-LIS-uh-tuhs, adjective: 1. Well suited or expressed; appropriate; apt. 2. Pleasant; delightful; marked by happiness or good fortune. Ex.: I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day. --Roger Martin du Gard, _Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort_ (translated by Timothy Crouse) ideate (transitive verb) Inflected: ideated, ideating, ideates To form a thought or idea of; imagine. Cr.Syn.: imagine, image Related: conceive, think as intransitive verb: To conceive ideas; think. Related: imagine Derived: ideative, adj. inchoate (adj.) 1. Just beginning to develop 2. Only partly formed inkling (noun) Faint idea: a vague idea or suspicion about a fact, event, or person nascent NAS-uhnt; NAY-suhnt, adjective: Beginning to exist or having recently come into existence; coming into being. syzygy (noun) ['si-zκ-jee] The alignment of two (or more) celestial bodies, as the moon and sun are in alignment vis-a-vis the earth during an eclipse; by extension, any two distinct objects or ideas in alignment or conjunction with each other. vacuity (noun) Lack of ideas: a lack of intelligent or serious content zeitgeist (noun) Ideas and spirit of time: the ideas prevalent in a period and place, particularly as expressed in literature, philosophy, and religion . . see "KNOWING (ONESELF)" "Who are you?" said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I-- I hardly know, Sir, just at present--at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then." --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) English writer and logician, _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865] There's as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French moralist and essayist, _Essays_, Bk. 2 . . see "BELIEF" for related links Abuse of words, foundation of idealogy. --Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French philosopher, _Pensιes_ [1838], tr. Paul Auster [1983] It is not the murderers, the criminals, the delinquents and the wildly nonconformist who have embarked on the really significant rampages of killing, torture and mayhem. Rather it is the conformist, virtuous citizens, acting in the name of righteous causes and intensely held beliefs, who throughout history have perpetrated the fiery holocausts of war, the religious persecutions, the sacks of cities, the wholesale rape of women, the dismemberment of the old and the young and the other unspeakable horrors... The crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed 'ad majorem gloriam Dei', out of a self- sacrificing devotion to a flag, a leader, a religious faith, a political conviction. --Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) novelist and social philosopher, _The Ghost in the Machine_ [1990] p.85 I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology. --Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic . . see "THE MIND" for related links I'm obsessed with ice cubes... Ice is very much like flowers. It just dies at a certain point. But you know what's weird? You can bring it back to life. Just by freezing it. Ice, I worship it. --Drew Barrymore (1975- ) American actress By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself. --Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) French novelist He may look like an idiot, and he may sound like an idiot, but don't let him fool you. He really is an idiot. --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895-1977) American film comedian Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. --Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Franco-German missionary It was like a trip into the future. I could write a mile and not tell all that makes me glad these days. I have seen the future; and it works. --Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) American journalist. In a letter to Marie Howe, during his visit to Russia [3 April 1919]. The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. --Dame Rebecca West [Cecily Isabel Fairfiield] (1892-1983) British-Irish journalist, novelist, and critic. -- See the happy moron, He doesn't give a damn. I wish I were a moron-- My God, perhaps I am! --Rhyme ----- flibbertigibbet FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it, noun: A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities. end page | IDAHO - IDIOTS | IDLENESS - IMMATURITY | IMMIGRATION & IMMORALITY | IMMORTALITY - IMPOSTORS | IMPRESSIONABLE - INDECISION | INDEPENDENCE - INDIANA | INDIFFERENCE - INDIVIDUALITY | INDOCTRINATION - INFORMATION | INGRATITUDE - INNOVATION | INNUENDO - INSPIRATION | INSULTS - INTENTIONS | INTERESTED(ING) - INTUITION | INVENTIONS - ITCHING | JACKSON - JOGGING | JOHNSON (LYNDON) - JOY | JOURNALISM | JUDGE (TO) - JUSTICE | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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