10 ideas
21916 | Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer] |
1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
21924 | As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer] |
3558 | Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas] |
21915 | To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer] |
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] |
1755 | Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius] |
8409 | Probabilistic causal concepts are widely used in everyday life and in science [Salmon] |