11 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22752 | Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus] |
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |
22754 | Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus] |
22755 | Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus] |
22756 | If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus] |
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] |