29 ideas
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
10121 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal] |
6230 | If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
2170 | Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B] |
6229 | Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals [Cudworth] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
2171 | The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
6227 | Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
21819 | Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul [Homer, by Plotinus] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
6231 | There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are [Cudworth] |
11388 | Let there be one ruler [Homer] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
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] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |
14829 | Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche] |