Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. (Franz Grillparzer)

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Franz Grillparzer

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