16 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
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] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
5835 | The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon] |
7538 | The happiest people link the beginning and end of life [Goethe] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |
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] |
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] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |