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Single Idea 14863
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
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Full Idea
Inherent in wisdom [sophia] is discrimination, the possession of good taste: whereas science, lacking such a refined sense of taste, gobbles up anything that is worth knowing.
Gist of Idea
Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 19 [086])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr. Gray,Richard T. [Stanford 1995], p.32
A Reaction
This is blatantly unfair to science, which may lack 'taste', but at least prefers deep theories with wide-ranging explanatory power to narrow local theories. Maybe the line across the philosophical community is the one picking out those with taste?
The
32 ideas
with the same theme
[sort of character traits which accompany wisdom]:
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6319
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Wise people choose inaction and silence
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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6325
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One who knows does not speak; one who speaks does not know
[Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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421
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Men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed
[Heraclitus]
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13780
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Good people are no different from wise ones
[Plato]
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2136
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Philosophers become as divine and orderly as possible, by studying divinity and order
[Plato]
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2682
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Aristotle thinks human life is not important enough to spend a whole life on it
[Nagel on Aristotle]
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103
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Wise people can contemplate alone, though co-operation helps
[Aristotle]
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545
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It is not much help if a doctor knows about universals but not the immediate particular
[Aristotle]
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14519
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It is a great good to show reverence for a wise man
[Epicurus]
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20801
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A wise man's chief strength is not being tricked; nothing is worse than error, frivolity or rashness
[Zeno of Citium, by Cicero]
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20853
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Wise men should try to participate in politics, since they are a good influence
[Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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20854
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Wise men are never astonished at things which other people take to be wonders
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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20866
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Wise men participate in politics, especially if it shows moral progress
[Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
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20871
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Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly
[Cicero]
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5893
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A wise man has integrity, firmness of will, nobility, consistency, sobriety, patience
[Cicero]
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13295
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Wise people escape necessity by willing it
[Seneca]
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13560
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A wise man is not subservient to anything
[Seneca]
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23350
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A wise philosophers uses reason to cautiously judge each aspect of living
[Epictetus]
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3067
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A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments
[Aurelius]
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22115
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Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood
[Aquinas]
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6259
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Why can't a wise man doubt everything?
[Montaigne]
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7914
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To try to be wise all on one's own is folly
[Rochefoucauld]
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12903
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Wise people have fewer acts of will, because such acts are linked together
[Leibniz]
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20262
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Don't use wisdom in order to become clever!
[Nietzsche]
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Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste
[Nietzsche]
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20383
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The wisest man is full of contradictions, and attuned to other people, with occasional harmony
[Nietzsche]
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16010
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While faith is a passion (as Kierkegaard says), wisdom is passionless
[Wittgenstein]
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7536
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If you hope to improve the world, all you can do is improve yourself
[Wittgenstein]
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22397
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Wisdom is open to all, and not just to the clever or well trained
[Foot]
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19694
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Wisdom is the property of a person, not of their cognitive state
[Zagzebski, by Whitcomb]
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18495
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The best philosophers I know are the best people I know
[Heil]
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15833
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Tell cleverness from answers, but wisdom from questions
[Mahfouz]
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