17 ideas
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
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] |
7535 | If all beliefs are propositional, then belief and judgement are the same thing [Monk] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |