11 ideas
8766 | In much wisdom is much grief [Anon (Ecc)] |
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
8767 | Sorrow is better than laughter [Anon (Ecc)] |
7494 | Laughter is mad; of mirth, what doeth it? [Anon (Ecc)] |
4298 | All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
8765 | All is vanity, saith the Preacher [Anon (Ecc)] |
8768 | Books are endless, and study is wearisome [Anon (Ecc)] |
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] |