14 ideas
20180 | A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life [Russell] |
467 | A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion] |
20178 | Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening [Russell] |
20176 | Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell] |
20177 | Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell] |
20179 | Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this [Russell] |
21332 | We don't get a love of 'order' from nature - which is thoroughly chaotic [Mill] |
21335 | Belief that an afterlife is required for justice is an admission that this life is very unjust [Mill] |
21334 | No necessity ties an omnipotent Creator, so he evidently wills human misery [Mill] |
21333 | Evil comes from good just as often as good comes from evil [Mill] |
21329 | Nature dispenses cruelty with no concern for either mercy or justice [Mill] |
21328 | Killing is a human crime, but nature kills everyone, and often with great tortures [Mill] |
21331 | Hurricanes, locusts, floods and blight can starve a million people to death [Mill] |
21330 | Nature makes childbirth a miserable experience, often leading to the death of the mother [Mill] |