8 ideas
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |
7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |