36 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
23755 | Genius and love of truth are always accompanied by great humility [Weil] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
23747 | What is sacred is not a person, but the whole physical human being [Weil] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
23756 | The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
23758 | Beauty is an attractive mystery, leaving nothing to be desired [Weil] |
23760 | All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil] |
23748 | The sacred in every human is their expectation of good rather than evil [Weil] |
23759 | Everything which originates in love is beautiful [Weil] |
23762 | Evil is transmitted by comforts and pleasures, but mostly by doing harm to people [Weil] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
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] |
23750 | It is not more money which the wretched members of society need [Weil] |
23749 | The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves [Weil] |
23753 | People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil] |
23751 | Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil] |
23752 | Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil] |
23757 | The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love [Weil] |
23761 | Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality) [Weil] |
23763 | Punishment aims at the good for men who don't desire it [Weil] |
23764 | The only thing in society worse than crime is repressive justice [Weil] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
23754 | The only choice is between supernatural good, or evil [Weil] |
8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |