8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20558 | Your representative owes you his judgement, and betrays you if he gives your opinion instead [Burke] |
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] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |