8 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
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] |