34 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
162 | Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? [Plato] |
160 | The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things [Plato] |
166 | A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility [Plato] |
7953 | Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato] |
16121 | I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things [Plato] |
153 | It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions [Plato] |
154 | We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms [Plato] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
151 | True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience [Plato] |
165 | If the apparent facts strongly conflict with probability, it is in everyone's interests to suppress the facts [Plato] |
9296 | The soul is self-motion [Plato] |
23997 | Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie] |
158 | An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker [Plato] |
5946 | 'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred on Plato] |
159 | Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker [Plato] |
155 | Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms [Plato] |
143 | The two ruling human principles are the natural desire for pleasure, and an acquired love of virtue [Plato] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
157 | Most pleasure is release from pain, and is therefore not worthwhile [Plato] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
144 | Reason impels us towards excellence, which teaches us self-control [Plato] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
156 | Bad people are never really friends with one another [Plato] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
152 | The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth [Plato] |
150 | We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves [Plato] |
149 | There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings [Plato] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |
146 | Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal [Plato] |