It’s not a good idea to look at Tommy Shelby the wrong way.
A delusion starts like any other idea, as an egg. Identical on the outside, perfectly formed. From the shell, you’d never know anything was wrong. It’s what’s inside that matters.
I’ve always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty, and art, and horror of everything this world has to offer.
Having a brilliant idea isn’t as easy as turning on a light. But just as a single bulb can illuminate even the most depressing of rooms, the right idea can shed light on a depressing situation.
Once the idea exists, it cannot be killed.
It’s fashionable in this modern age to dismiss the idea of good and evil, but there is evil, and it finds purchase in good men by giving sin the sweet taste of ecstasy.
If dangerous ideas didn’t excite the imagination, we would never wander astray.
There’s no such thing as a bad idea! Only poorly executed awesome ones.
We owe our hearts and our minds not to any one man but to an idea.
It’s just never a good idea to tell a woman more than they need to know.
If the idea of illness can become illness, what else about our reality is actually a disorder?
Genius ideas are simple, like the wheel or neurosurgery.
