27 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |