17 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
7460 | The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
3031 | The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |