17 ideas
19594 | General statements about nature are not valid [Novalis] |
7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
19596 | The whole body is involved in the formation of thoughts [Novalis] |
23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
19593 | Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history [Novalis] |
19595 | Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood [Novalis] |
7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
19592 | The basic relations of nature are musical [Novalis] |
7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |
7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |
7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |