11 ideas
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
8406 | Not all explanations are causal, but if a thing can be explained at all, it can be explained causally [Sanford] |
22370 | Big central government only exists as a focus for anger - not to act [Fisher] |
22368 | It is hard to imagine the end of capitalism [Fisher] |
22369 | Are students consumers or products of education? [Fisher] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
8407 | A totality of conditions necessary for an occurrence is usually held to be jointly sufficient for it [Sanford] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |