8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
23565 | Our obedience to the king erases any crimes we commit for him [Shakespeare] |
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] |