8 ideas
9218 | Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths [Sider] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
5451 | Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner] |
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] |
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] |
3018 | People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |