14 ideas
| 1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
| 12036 | Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas] |
| 12046 | Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas] |
| 3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
| 13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
| 12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
| 12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
| 1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
| 13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
| 1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
| 13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
| 13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |
| 1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |