8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7566 | The Identity of Indiscernibles is really the same as the verification principle [Jolley] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |