8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
9103 | A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9104 | A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham] |
19458 | Egoism is the only evil, love the only good; genuine love produces all the other virtues [Feuerbach] |
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] |