5 ideas
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
23405 | Rituals escape natural chaos, and benefit everyone, by reshaping our motivations [Xunzi (Xun Kuang), by Norden] |
23406 | Rituals don't arise from human nature; they are the deliberate creations of a sage [Xunzi (Xun Kuang)] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |