17 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
21970 | Philosophy attains its goal if one person feels perfect accord between their system and experience [Fichte] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
6912 | For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason' [Fichte, by Feuerbach] |
21973 | Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW] |
21914 | We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte] |
20951 | The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I [Fichte, by Bowie] |
21964 | Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature [Fichte] |
21968 | Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking [Fichte] |
21965 | Spinoza could not actually believe his determinism, because living requires free will [Fichte] |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |