27 ideas
| 6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
| 1564 | True and false statements can use exactly the same words [Anon (Diss)] |
| 22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
| 1561 | Anything can be acceptable in some circumstances and unacceptable in others [Anon (Diss)] |
| 1560 | Lydians prostitute their daughters to raise a dowery, but no Greek would marry such a girl [Anon (Diss)] |
| 1559 | Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment [Anon (Diss)] |
| 6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
| 1554 | Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind] |
| 1567 | How could someone who knows everything fail to act correctly? [Anon (Diss)] |
| 6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
| 1563 | Every apparent crime can be right in certain circumstances [Anon (Diss), by PG] |
| 6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
| 6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
| 1562 | It is right to lie to someone, to get them to take medicine they are reluctant to take [Anon (Diss)] |
| 6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
| 20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
| 6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
| 1566 | The first priority in elections is to vote for people who support democracy [Anon (Diss)] |
| 6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
| 1565 | We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it [Anon (Diss)] |
| 7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
| 7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
| 7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
| 6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |
| 1555 | People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus] |
| 535 | The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus] |
| 1543 | He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus] |