12 ideas
21852 | Nomads are the basis of history, and yet almost unknowable [Deleuze] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
12741 | If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz] |
12740 | The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
12721 | Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
21853 | We are currently extending capitalism to the whole of society [Deleuze] |
21851 | The State requires self-preservation, but the war-machine desires destruction [Deleuze] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |