So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition, which are at the same time patterns of transformation, whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another.

Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.

When their faith in civil liberties is tested against strong pressures of social expediency in specific issues, e.g., suppression of `` dangerous ideas '', many waver and give in.

After the seventeenth century the audience ceased to be an organic community to which these ideas and their attendant habits of figurative language would be natural or immediately familiar.

Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten-foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.

Prokofieff was guided in a consistent direction by the life of his own people -- by the compass of their national ideas.

He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.

There are many places where we can use their vigor and new ideas ' ''.

Neoclassic artists used classical forms to express their ideas about courage, sacrifice, and love of country.

The first nine probably date from the 3rd century BC, they are usually included among the Cynic epistles, and reflect how the Cynic philosophers viewed him as prefiguring many of their ideas ; the tenth letter is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, it is addressed to Croesus, the proverbially rich king of Lydia, it too is fictitious:

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Such ideas are described as " Counter-Enlightenment " because they are contrary to the Enlightenment's ideal that humans have the capacity to make their lives and societies a heaven on earth using their own power and reason.

Participants base their criticisms on a number of related ideas.

" They approached a notable Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Rittelmeyer, who was already working with Steiner's ideas, to join their efforts.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

* Richard Reti vs Aron Nimzowitsch, Berlin 1928, NimzoIndian Defence ( E38 ), 0 – 1 Two of the top hypermoderns cross swords to showcase their latest ideas.

While there was a ban on using Aristotle's works as teaching texts, theologians like Alexander continued to exploit his ideas in their theology.

On more than one occasion, Judge told the writers that one of their ideas for an episode of King of the Hill would work well for Beavis and Butt-Head ; eventually he concluded, " Maybe we should just actually make some good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes.

Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis's ideas: John Wallace Spencer ( Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr.

Although the definitions of words and ideas might broaden, continuity ( preservation ) requires retention of their original arete ( excellence, virtue, goodness ).

Alchemists have historically rewritten, and evolved the explanation of their art, making a singular definition difficult.

To compensate for their thin and delicate skin, amphibians have evolved mucous glands, principally on their heads, backs and tails.

Four of the Darwin's finches | 14 finch species found on the Galápagos Islands | Galápagos Archipelago, are thought to have evolved by an adaptive radiation that diversified their beak shapes to adapt them to different food sources.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

It has not been definitively established whether the existence of these brainless species indicates that the earliest bilaterians lacked a brain, or whether their ancestors evolved in a way that led to the disappearance of a previously existing brain structure.

Other elements, however, may be viewed as bacterial parasites and conjugation as a mechanism evolved by them to allow for their spread.

The most common vectors now are viruses, which have evolved a way of encapsulating and delivering their genes to human cells in a pathogenic manner.

It is assumed that their oral teeth evolved from dermal denticles which migrated into the mouth, but it could be the other way around as the teleost bony fish Denticeps clupeoides has most of its head covered by dermal teeth ( as does, probably, Atherion elymus, another bony fish ).

The large number of experiments exploring the physics and chemistry of these so-called " colloidal crystals " has emerged as a result of the relatively simple methods that have evolved in the last 20 years for preparing synthetic monodisperse colloids ( both polymer and mineral ) and, through various mechanisms, implementing and preserving their long-range order formation.

Many schools have evolved into and adapted the term comprehensive to describe their institutions.

Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by the grotesque image of the circus clown's colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, and red nose, which evolved to project their actions to large audiences.

Infantry who moved on horseback, but dismounted to fight on foot, were known in the 17th and early 18th centuries as dragoons, a class of mounted infantry which later evolved into cavalry proper while retaining their historic title.

Censuses have evolved in their use of technology with the latest censuses, the 2010 round, using many new types of computing.

Web analytics have evolved significantly from their starting point of merely tracking mouse clicks on Web sites.

His species, Carbosilicate Amorphs, evolved from self-repairing distributed data storage devices, and as such, redundantly distribute their ' brain ' throughout their body.

Many conventions of the detective-fiction genre evolved in this era, as numerous writers — from populist entertainers to respected poets — tried their hands at mystery stories.

Each was placed in its own monotypic family ( Raphidae and Pezophapidae, respectively ), as it was thought that they had evolved their similar features independently.

( see http :// www. merriam-webster. com / dictionary / diaspora ) The wider application of diaspora evolved from the Assyrian two-way mass deportation policy of conquered populations to deny future territorial claims on their part.

Since the American Civil War the term " discrimination " generally evolved in American English usage as an understanding of prejudicial treatment of an individual based solely on their race, later generalized as membership in a certain socially undesirable group or social category.

In the 17th century, European diplomats realized that protection from prosecution was essential to doing their jobs and a set of rules evolved guaranteeing the rights of diplomats.

Historically, the concept of entropy evolved in order to explain why some processes ( permitted by conservation laws ) occur spontaneously while their time reversals ( also permitted by conservation laws ) do not ; systems tend to progress in the direction of increasing entropy.

It is generally thought that Jimmu's name and character evolved into their present shape just before the time in which legends about the origins of the Yamato dynasty were chronicled in the Kojiki.