8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
6456 | Sense-data are neutral uninterpreted experiences, separated from objects and judgements [Angeles] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |