13 ideas
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
18004 | We can't do philosophy without knowledge of types and categories [Ryle] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
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] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |