16 ideas
5893 | A wise man has integrity, firmness of will, nobility, consistency, sobriety, patience [Cicero] |
5891 | Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments [Cicero] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
5879 | The soul is the heart, or blood in the heart, or part of the brain, of something living in heart or brain, or breath [Cicero] |
5884 | How can one mind perceive so many dissimilar sensations? [Cicero] |
5887 | The soul has a single nature, so it cannot be divided, and hence it cannot perish [Cicero] |
5886 | Like the eye, the soul has no power to see itself, but sees other things [Cicero] |
5885 | Souls contain no properties of elements, and elements contain no properties of souls [Cicero] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
5890 | We should not share the distress of others, but simply try to relieve it [Cicero] |
5894 | All men except philosophers fear poverty [Cicero] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
5895 | If one despises illiterate mechanics individually, they are not worth more collectively [Cicero] |