13 ideas
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
16789 | Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being [Hobbes] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
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] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |