15 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
3534 | To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
14494 | Epiphenomenalism is like a pointless nobleman, kept for show, but soon to be abolished [Alexander,S] |
3398 | Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |