7 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
19456 | Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions [Feuerbach] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9379 | A sentence is obvious if it is true, and any speaker of the language will instantly agree to it [Quine] |
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] |