„An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones.“

Fuente: Speak

Light (1919), Ch. XX The Cult
Contexto: The idea of motherland is not a false idea, but it is a little idea, and one which must remain little.
There is only one common good. There is only one moral duty, only one truth, and every man is the shining recipient and guardian of it. The present understanding of the idea of motherland divides all these great ideas, cuts them into pieces, specializes them within impenetrable circles. We meet as many national truths as we do nations, and as many national duties, and as many national interests and rights — and they are antagonistic to each other.

The Monthly Magazine

Allan and the Holy Flower (1915), CHAPTER I, BROTHER JOHN

Fuente: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Think Like an Artist (2015)

Book One, Chapter XVI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One

Too Shy To Say
Song lyrics, Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)

Section 2, paragraph 58.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
Contexto: When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

Fuente: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 33 (p. 367)

Fuente: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 1
Contexto: A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
My life may not be great to others, but to me it has been one of steady progression, never dull, often exciting, often hungry, tired, and lonely, but always learning. Somewhere back down the years I decided, or my nature decided for me, that I would be a teller of stories.
Decisions had to be made and there was nobody but me to make them. My course altered a number of times but never deviated from the destination I had decided upon. Whether this was altogether a matter of choice I do not know. Perhaps my early reading and the storytelling at home had preconditioned me for the role I adopted.
Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it became a lifelong romance. Early on I discovered it was fun to follow along the byways of history to find those treasures that await any searcher. It may be that all later decisions followed naturally from that first one.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s

Fuente: Short fiction, Vortex, p. 111

Fuente: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 46)

1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

Being on Ascension Island in 1944
Article in Movie Maker http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/luise_rainer_3324/

Preface
Variante: Paraphrased variant: The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Fuente: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)