20 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
23122 | Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
14644 | If my conception of pain derives from me, it is a contradiction to speak of another's pain [Malcolm] |
7496 | Rules and duties are based on the will, as that is all we control [Montaigne] |
7495 | Apart from the fear, dying is an easy duty [Montaigne] |
22269 | We must fight fiercely to hang on to the few pleasures which survive into old age [Montaigne] |
20482 | Virtue inspires Stoics, but I want a good temperament [Montaigne] |
20480 | There is not much point in only becoming good near the end of your life [Montaigne] |
20481 | Nothing we say can be worse than unsaying it in the face of authority [Montaigne] |
20479 | People at home care far more than soldiers risking death about the outcome of wars [Montaigne] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |
1422 | God's existence is either necessary or impossible, and no one has shown that the concept of God is contradictory [Malcolm] |