83 ideas
13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato] |
6928 | Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy [Feuerbach] |
6918 | Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things [Feuerbach] |
6904 | Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter [Feuerbach] |
6931 | Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects [Feuerbach] |
24084 | Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche] |
6933 | The laws of reality are also the laws of thought [Feuerbach] |
13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
24092 | I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche] |
24114 | The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief [Nietzsche] |
24104 | We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true [Nietzsche] |
13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
13777 | A name is a sort of tool [Plato] |
13790 | A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it [Plato] |
13791 | Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge [Plato] |
13789 | Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato] |
6919 | Absolute thought remains in another world from being [Feuerbach] |
19457 | Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable [Feuerbach] |
6920 | Being posits essence, and my essence is my being [Feuerbach] |
6921 | Particularity belongs to being, whereas generality belongs to thought [Feuerbach] |
6926 | The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love [Feuerbach] |
24112 | To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche] |
2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato] |
13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato] |
13787 | Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato] |
24089 | Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche] |
13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato] |
13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato] |
6908 | Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness [Feuerbach] |
6932 | Ideas arise through communication, and reason is reached through community [Feuerbach] |
6935 | In man the lowest senses of smell and taste elevate themselves to intellectual acts [Feuerbach] |
24115 | There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall [Nietzsche] |
13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing [Plato] |
13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato] |
24090 | Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche] |
24099 | We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind [Nietzsche] |
24102 | Thoughts are signs (just as words are) [Nietzsche] |
6925 | The new philosophy thinks of the concrete in a concrete (not a abstract) manner [Feuerbach] |
24120 | Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them [Nietzsche] |
24097 | The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning [Nietzsche] |
24108 | Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose [Nietzsche] |
24105 | Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings [Nietzsche] |
24117 | We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control [Nietzsche] |
24113 | Our motives don't explain our actions [Nietzsche] |
24087 | People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche] |
24091 | The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche] |
6924 | Plotinus was ashamed to have a body [Feuerbach] |
24093 | We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche] |
24121 | Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious [Nietzsche] |
24107 | Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals [Nietzsche] |
24085 | For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche] |
24101 | We always assign values, but we may not value those values [Nietzsche] |
6927 | If you love nothing, it doesn't matter whether something exists or not [Feuerbach] |
24094 | Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche] |
24111 | Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives [Nietzsche] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
24109 | Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed) [Nietzsche] |
24110 | Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals [Nietzsche] |
24103 | You should not want too many virtues; one is enough [Nietzsche] |
24106 | Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined [Nietzsche] |
24086 | The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche] |
24123 | My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect [Nietzsche] |
24088 | See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche] |
24119 | The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought [Nietzsche] |
6934 | Man is not a particular being, like animals, but a universal being [Feuerbach] |
6936 | The essence of man is in community, but with distinct individuals [Feuerbach] |
24116 | Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal [Nietzsche] |
24098 | Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime [Nietzsche] |
24118 | Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime [Nietzsche] |
24100 | If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war [Nietzsche] |
24095 | Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche] |
24096 | Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche] |
24122 | Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value [Nietzsche] |
13779 | The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) [Plato] |
13783 | Even the gods love play [Plato] |
6913 | God's existence cannot be separated from essence and concept, which can only be thought as existing [Feuerbach] |
6903 | If God is only an object for man, then only the essence of man is revealed in God [Feuerbach] |
6923 | God is what man would like to be [Feuerbach] |
6911 | God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence [Feuerbach] |
6902 | Catholicism concerns God in himself, Protestantism what God is for man [Feuerbach] |
6905 | Absolute idealism is the realized divine mind of Leibnizian theism [Feuerbach] |