22 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
23269 | Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts [Galen] |
23248 | Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
23266 | The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour [Galen] |
6003 | Galen showed by experiment that the brain controls the body [Galen, by Hankinson] |
23219 | Stopping the heart doesn't terminate activity; pressing the brain does that [Galen, by Cobb] |
21799 | We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen] |
23264 | Philosophers think faculties are in substances, and invent a faculty for every activity [Galen] |
23220 | The brain contains memory and reason, and is the source of sensation and decision [Galen] |
23265 | The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection [Galen] |
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)] |
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)] |
7453 | Galen's medicine followed the mean; each illness was balanced by opposite treatment [Galen, by Hacking] |
6030 | Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason [Galen] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
23268 | We execute irredeemable people, to protect ourselves, as a deterrent, and ending a bad life [Galen] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |