Quotes about id
ideas democracy discworld
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts, Terry Pratchett
ideas stories use
The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use. Terry Gilliam
identity who-we-are where-we-come
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. Terry Brooks
ideas psychedelic standing-out
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna
ideas scorn my-own
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
ideas psychedelic bursting
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
ideas imagination levels
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
ideas profound mind
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
ideas drug
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
ideas ego enlightenment
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
ideas space mind
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
ideas knowing shapes
The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going. Teju Cole
ideas brain matter
Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say. Ted Chiang
ideas light thousand
One idea lights a thousand candles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
identity analogies findings
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
ideas essence way
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
ideas citizens lovers
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
ideas race lasts
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.
ideas house ends
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
identity acorns fullness
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
idols role-models history
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
ideas issues coward
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
ideas discipline mind
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
ideas prisoner
We are the prisoners of ideas.
ideas property
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
ideas use fit
Thought makes everything fit for use.
ideas evermore screens
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
ideas people used
People better get used to the idea that I exist. Segolene Royal
ideas doctors smoking
It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas. Sean Hannity
ideas church constitution
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
ideas issues people
I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.
ideas long serious
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now. Shunryu Suzuki
ideas hearing problem
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. Shirley Chisholm