17 ideas
7460 | The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson] |
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
16643 | Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
16696 | Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
20544 | Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Berlin, by Swift] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |