17 ideas
1564 | True and false statements can use exactly the same words [Anon (Diss)] |
19419 | Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz] |
1559 | Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment [Anon (Diss)] |
1561 | Anything can be acceptable in some circumstances and unacceptable in others [Anon (Diss)] |
1560 | Lydians prostitute their daughters to raise a dowery, but no Greek would marry such a girl [Anon (Diss)] |
19421 | Souls act as if there were no bodies, and bodies act as if there were no souls [Leibniz] |
1567 | How could someone who knows everything fail to act correctly? [Anon (Diss)] |
8120 | Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy] |
1563 | Every apparent crime can be right in certain circumstances [Anon (Diss), by PG] |
19420 | Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz] |
1562 | It is right to lie to someone, to get them to take medicine they are reluctant to take [Anon (Diss)] |
1566 | The first priority in elections is to vote for people who support democracy [Anon (Diss)] |
1565 | We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it [Anon (Diss)] |
19416 | Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz] |
19422 | Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz] |
19418 | Mechanics shows that all motion originates in other motion, so there is a Prime Mover [Leibniz] |
19417 | All substances are in harmony, even though separate, so they must have one divine cause [Leibniz] |