Simple Idea

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or idea:

“Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)