12 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
13166 | Essences are no use in mathematics, if all mathematical truths are necessary [Mancosu] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |