9 ideas
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
1477 | Being manly and brave is the result of convention, not of human nature [Plutarch] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
1478 | Animals don't value pleasure, as they cease sexual intercourse after impregnation [Plutarch] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |
1479 | Animals have not been led into homosexuality, because they value pleasure very little [Plutarch] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |