8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
16695 | Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
23888 | Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking [Weil] |
23887 | Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others [Weil] |
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] |