12 ideas
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
12169 | Since only men laugh, it seems to be an attribute of reason [Scruton] |
12172 | Objects of amusement do not have to be real [Scruton] |
12170 | Amusement rests on superiority, or relief, or incongruity [Scruton] |
12173 | The central object of amusement is the human [Scruton] |
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
12174 | Only rational beings are attentive without motive or concern [Scruton] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
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] |