61 ideas
18450 | Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry] |
6814 | Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed] |
18451 | The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition [Porphyry] |
15034 | Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them? [Porphyry] |
18459 | Diversity arises from the power of unity [Porphyry] |
1212 | Replacing timbers on Theseus' ship was the classic illustration of the problem of growth and change [Plutarch] |
5958 | The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch] |
18452 | Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought [Porphyry] |
18453 | Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry] |
18462 | The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause [Porphyry] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
5959 | Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
18463 | Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought [Porphyry] |
18458 | The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition [Porphyry] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
5963 | Some say emotion is a sort of reason, and others say virtue concerns emotion [Plutarch] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
18464 | Justice is each person fulfilling his function [Porphyry] |
1477 | Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch] |
18448 | We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams [Porphyry] |
1478 | Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch] |
6828 | You may break off a treaty if you fear treachery from your ally [Mohammed] |
6823 | Repay evil with good and your enemies will become friends (though this is hard) [Mohammed] |
18444 | Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens [Porphyry] |
18445 | Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature [Porphyry] |
18446 | Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions [Porphyry] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
18447 | There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues [Porphyry] |
6826 | Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed] |
6822 | Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed] |
6833 | Punish theft in men or women by cutting off their hands [Mohammed] |
6825 | Do not kill except for a just cause [Mohammed] |
6832 | Killing a human, except as just punishment, is like killing all mankind [Mohammed] |
1479 | Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch] |
18456 | Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it [Porphyry] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
18454 | Time is the circular movement of the soul [Porphyry] |
18455 | Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement [Porphyry] |
6811 | Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed] |
18460 | God is nowhere, and hence everywhere [Porphyry] |
6819 | True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed] |
5974 | People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch] |
18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
5957 | Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch] |
6818 | Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient [Mohammed] |
6834 | Unbelievers try to interpret the ambiguous parts of the Koran, simply to create dissension [Mohammed] |
6831 | He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever [Mohammed] |
6827 | Make war on the unbelievers until Allah's religion reigns supreme [Mohammed] |
6824 | Do not split into sects, exulting in separate beliefs [Mohammed] |
6821 | I created mankind that it might worship Me [Mohammed] |
6817 | The Koran is certainly composed by Allah; no one could compose a chapter like it [Mohammed] |
6829 | There shall be no compulsion in religion [Mohammed] |
6815 | Be patient with unbelievers, and leave them to the judgement of Allah [Mohammed] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |
18449 | Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry] |
18457 | Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry] |
6820 | The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed] |
6812 | Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed] |
6816 | The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed] |
6830 | Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell [Mohammed] |