8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
12750 | The question is whether force is self-sufficient in bodies, and essential, or dependent on something [Lenfant] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
6003 | Galen showed by experiment that the brain controls the body [Galen, by Hankinson] |
6030 | Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason [Galen] |
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] |