14 ideas
| 19588 | The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity [Novalis] |
| 19598 | Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete [Novalis] |
| 19586 | Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox [Novalis] |
| 19587 | Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis] |
| 19597 | Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics [Novalis] |
| 7544 | Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe] |
| 7541 | Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is [Goethe] |
| 7543 | We gain self-knowledge through action, not thought - especially when doing our duty [Goethe] |
| 7540 | Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws [Goethe] |
| 7538 | The happiest people link the beginning and end of life [Goethe] |
| 7542 | The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves [Goethe] |
| 7539 | To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe] |
| 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] |