12 ideas
| 1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
| 8138 | Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy [Paul] |
| 23766 | Don't be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, by cunning deceptive men [Paul] |
| 16567 | Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D] |
| 3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 5052 | When Gentiles follow the law, they must have the law written in their hearts [Paul] |
| 7572 | Power is ordained by God, so anyone who resists power resists God, and will be damned [Paul] |
| 19945 | Jew and Greeks, bond and free, male and female, are all one in Christ [Paul] |
| 1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
| 1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
| 20695 | God's eternal power and deity are clearly seen in what has been created [Paul] |
| 1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |