Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
As quoted in The Book of Poisonous Quotes (1993) edited by Colin Jarman, p. 232.
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
As quoted in Michel Foucault (1991) by Didier Eribon, as translated by Betsy Wind, Harvard University Press, p. 282
Context: There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Scottish physicist
"Thomson & Tait's Natural Philosophy" in Nature, Vol. 7 (Mar. 27, 1873) A review of Elements of Natural Philosophy https://archive.org/details/elementsnatural00kelvgoog (1873) by Sir W. Thomson, P. G. Tait. See Nature, Vol. 7-8, https://archive.org/details/nature7818721873lock Nov. 1872-Oct. 1873, pp. 399-400, or The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, p. 328. https://books.google.com/books?id=lzlRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA328
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)
Source: Society of the Spectacle (1967), Ch. 8, sct. 207 (confer Comte de Lautréamont, Poésies II, 1870).
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Crack-Up
Source: Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Context: Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – 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.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
