20 ideas
| 7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
| 16062 | A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16061 | If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16060 | Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16064 | The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
| 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] |
| 7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
| 7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
| 7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
| 7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
| 7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
| 9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
| 7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |