18 ideas
| 1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
| 4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
| 3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 22445 | Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot] |
| 22444 | A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot] |
| 22447 | Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot] |
| 2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
| 4426 | A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche] |
| 4425 | The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche] |
| 22448 | We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot] |
| 20132 | To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche] |
| 20144 | Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche] |
| 2889 | One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche] |
| 22446 | In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot] |
| 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] |
| 2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |
| 1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |