14 ideas
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
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] |
21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
19589 | The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |