36 ideas
13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato] |
13560 | A wise man is not subservient to anything [Seneca] |
13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
19574 | If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions [Novalis] |
13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
19571 | Delusion and truth differ in their life functions [Novalis] |
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] |
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] |
13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
19575 | Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis] |
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] |
19572 | Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience [Novalis] |
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] |
19573 | The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate [Novalis] |
19577 | Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance [Novalis] |
19578 | Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis] |
13558 | The supreme good is harmony of spirit [Seneca] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
13559 | I seek virtue, because it is its own reward [Seneca] |
13561 | Virtue is always moderate, so excess need not be feared [Seneca] |
13562 | It is shameful to not even recognise your own slaves [Seneca] |
13564 | There is far more scope for virtue if you are wealthy; poverty only allows endurance [Seneca] |
13563 | Why does your wife wear in her ears the income of a wealthy house? [Seneca] |
13565 | If wealth was a good, it would make men good [Seneca] |
13557 | Unfortunately the majority do not tend to favour what is best [Seneca] |
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] |
19576 | Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead [Novalis] |