9 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
21386 | We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus] |
7276 | All art is quite useless [Wilde] |
7274 | Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde] |
7275 | Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
14051 | A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus] |
1828 | God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus] |