11 ideas
21852 | Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable [Deleuze] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
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] |
7071 | Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi] |
7072 | Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley] |
21853 | We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society [Deleuze] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
21851 | The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction [Deleuze] |