18 ideas
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
13768 | Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington] |
13770 | There are many different conditional mental states, and different conditional speech acts [Edgington] |
13764 | Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'? [Edgington] |
13765 | 'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens [Edgington] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1751 | Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |