21 ideas
5893 | A wise man has integrity, firmness of will, nobility, consistency, sobriety, patience [Cicero] |
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
5891 | Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments [Cicero] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5879 | The soul is the heart, or blood in the heart, or part of the brain, of something living in heart or brain, or breath [Cicero] |
5884 | How can one mind perceive so many dissimilar sensations? [Cicero] |
5887 | The soul has a single nature, so it cannot be divided, and hence it cannot perish [Cicero] |
5886 | Like the eye, the soul has no power to see itself, but sees other things [Cicero] |
5885 | Souls contain no properties of elements, and elements contain no properties of souls [Cicero] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
5890 | We should not share the distress of others, but simply try to relieve it [Cicero] |
5894 | All men except philosophers fear poverty [Cicero] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
5895 | If one despises illiterate mechanics individually, they are not worth more collectively [Cicero] |
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] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |