12 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
23900 | Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil] |
3654 | The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG] |
4015 | For Descartes passions are God-given preservers of the mind-body union [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
4313 | Are there a few primary passions (say, joy, sadness and desire)? [Descartes, by Cottingham] |
23989 | There are six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness [Descartes, by Goldie] |
20037 | Merely willing to walk leads to our walking [Descartes] |
23899 | The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil] |
16763 | We don't die because the soul departs; the soul departs because the organs cease functioning [Descartes] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
4016 | Descartes makes strength of will the central virtue [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |