Full Idea
In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them.
Gist of Idea
Ideas are neutral, but people fill them with passion and weakness
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'Genealogy')
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.3
A Reaction
If it isn't neutral (if, say, it expresses love or hatred) then presumably it doesn't qualify as an 'idea'. Are ideas as neutral as mathematical theorems. It's a nice remark, and a good epigraph for a book on the history of ideas.