8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16740 | A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
22251 | Liberalism may fail because it neglects the shared nature of what we pursue and protect [Haldane] |
16571 | Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella] |
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] |