29 ideas
| 8228 | Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)] |
| 5311 | If observation goes up a level, we expect the laws of the lower level to remain in force [Wilson,EO] |
| 5312 | A child first sees objects as distinct, and later as members of groups [Wilson,EO] |
| 5309 | Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO] |
| 8232 | Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)] |
| 7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
| 7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
| 23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
| 7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
| 7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
| 7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
| 8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
| 5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
| 5313 | The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO] |
| 5316 | We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO] |
| 5318 | Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO] |
| 5317 | The actor is most convincing who believes that his performance is real [Wilson,EO] |
| 8234 | Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)] |
| 7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
| 5308 | The only human purpose is that created by our genetic history [Wilson,EO] |
| 7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
| 5314 | Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and fast, biological evolution is Darwinian and slow [Wilson,EO] |
| 5315 | Over 99 percent of human evolution has been in the hunter-gatherer phase [Wilson,EO] |
| 8227 | Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8231 | Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8229 | The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)] |
| 5320 | It is estimated that mankind has produced 100,000 religions [Wilson,EO] |
| 8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |
| 7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |