20 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21495 | Theoretical and practical politics are both concerned with the best lives for individuals [Russell] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21517 | Individuals need creativity, reverence for others, and self-respect [Russell] |
21522 | Democracy is inadequate without a great deal of devolution [Russell] |
21523 | We would not want UK affairs to be settled by a world parliament [Russell] |
21521 | Anarchy does not maximise liberty [Russell] |
21528 | Groups should be autonomous, with a neutral authority as arbitrator [Russell] |
21527 | On every new question the majority is always wrong at first [Russell] |
21526 | Unfortunately ordinary voters can't detect insincerity [Russell] |
21525 | When the state is the only employer, there is no refuge from the prejudices of other people [Russell] |
21518 | Men unite in pursuit of material things, and idealise greed as part of group loyalty [Russell] |
21519 | We need security and liberty, and then encouragement of creativity [Russell] |
21524 | The right to own land gives a legal right to a permanent income [Russell] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
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] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
21520 | That our heaven is a dull place reflects the misery of excessive work in life [Russell] |