To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

—Jean Rostand

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Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand (30 October 1894 – 4 September 1977) was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher.

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

—Jean Rostand

To be an adult is to be alone.

—Jean Rostand

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

—Jean Rostand

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

—H. L. Mencken

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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

—Charles Kettering

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Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day… we become seekers.

—Peter Matthiessen

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Ideas shape the course of history.

—John Maynard Keynes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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