22 ideas
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 18810 | Aristotle's proofs give understanding, so it can't be otherwise, so consequence is necessary [Smiley, by Rumfitt] |
| 9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
| 7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
| 9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
| 7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
| 23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
| 7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
| 7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
| 7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
| 9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
| 7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
| 7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
| 9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
| 23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
| 23057 | Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray] |
| 23056 | Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray] |
| 9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
| 23055 | Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray] |
| 9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
| 23058 | Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray] |
| 7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |