11 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
20947 | Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |