17 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
536 | We should follow the law in public, and nature in private [Antiphon] |
1557 | To gain the greatest advantage only treat law as important when other people are present [Antiphon] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
540 | The way you spend your time will form your character [Antiphon] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
539 | Nothing is worse for mankind than anarchy [Antiphon] |