“All words are pegs to hang ideas upon.”
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
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American clergyman and activist 1813–1887Related quotes
“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”
“Limiting your options is the same as hanging on to old ideas.”
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The Future of Ideas (2001)
Context: A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The "taken for granted" is the test of sanity; "what everyone knows" is the line between us and them.
This means that sometimes a society gets stuck. Sometimes these unquestioned ideas interfere, as the cost of questioning becomes too great. In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 32.
“Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
All else is up to God!”
Poem "D. Pedro", verses 11-12
Message
Original: Fiel à palavra dada e à ideia tida.
Tudo o mais é com Deus!
We live at a time when many have been formed and many are still forming.
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 20
“I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.”
At the National Portrait Gallery unveiling of his portrait (19 December 2008), quoted in David Byers, " President Bush attends his own hanging http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article1998914.ece", The Times (December 19, 2008); Christine Lagorio, " A Public Hanging (Of Sorts) For The Bush Family http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-public-hanging-of-sorts-for-the-bush-family/", CBS News (December 19, 2008).
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