28 ideas
5893 | A wise man has integrity, firmness of will, nobility, consistency, sobriety, patience [Cicero] |
5891 | Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments [Cicero] |
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] |
3772 | The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire [Mill] |
3769 | With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience [Mill] |
3767 | Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action [Mill] |
3771 | Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end [Mill] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
5890 | We should not share the distress of others, but simply try to relieve it [Cicero] |
5894 | All men except philosophers fear poverty [Cicero] |
3768 | Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory [Mill] |
3764 | Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill] |
3776 | Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill] |
7202 | The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill] |
5935 | Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill] |
3766 | Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill] |
3763 | Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill] |
3765 | Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill] |
3770 | General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill] |
6697 | Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill] |
3773 | No individual has the right to receive our benevolence [Mill] |
3774 | Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence [Mill] |
5895 | If one despises illiterate mechanics individually, they are not worth more collectively [Cicero] |
3775 | A right is a valid claim to society's protection [Mill] |