9 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21963 | It is possible that an omnipotent God might make one and two fail to equal three [Descartes] |
22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22074 | We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling] |
22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
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] |