17 ideas
8000 | He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre] |
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
23060 | The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |