24 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
23122 | Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
6230 | If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth] |
6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
6229 | Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals [Cudworth] |
7496 | Rules and duties are based on the will, as that is all we control [Montaigne] |
6227 | Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth] |
7495 | Apart from the fear, dying is an easy duty [Montaigne] |
22269 | We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age [Montaigne] |
20482 | Virtue inspires Stoics, but I want a good temperament [Montaigne] |
20480 | There is not much point in only becoming good near the end of your life [Montaigne] |
6231 | There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are [Cudworth] |
20481 | Nothing we say can be worse than unsaying it in the face of authority [Montaigne] |
6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
20479 | People at home care far more than soldiers risking death about the outcome of wars [Montaigne] |
6224 | An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't [Cudworth] |
6223 | If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it [Cudworth] |
6226 | The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands [Cudworth] |