22 ideas
| 9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
| 16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
| 9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
| 16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
| 16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
| 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
| 9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
| 9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
| 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
| 281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
| 9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
| 9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
| 9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
| 9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
| 9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
| 22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
| 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |