80 ideas
23064 | So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting [Cioran] |
18330 | Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age [Nietzsche] |
2900 | I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche] |
2913 | Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche] |
2909 | Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche] |
2892 | Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche] |
23072 | Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran] |
23075 | A text explained ceases to be a text [Cioran] |
2896 | I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness' [Nietzsche] |
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
2897 | With dialectics the rabble gets on top [Nietzsche] |
2898 | Anything which must first be proved is of little value [Nietzsche] |
23066 | Negation doesn't arise from reasoning, but from deep instincts [Cioran] |
18317 | The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world [Nietzsche] |
18315 | We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche] |
23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
18316 | The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality [Nietzsche] |
23068 | People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran] |
18314 | In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche] |
23073 | Convictions are failures to study anything thoroughly [Cioran] |
23078 | Opinions are fine, but having convictions means something has gone wrong [Cioran] |
18309 | The evidence of the senses is falsified by reason [Nietzsche] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
18323 | Any explanation will be accepted as true if it gives pleasure and a feeling of power [Nietzsche] |
18310 | The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts [Nietzsche] |
20368 | There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment [Nietzsche] |
23076 | If people always acted without words we would take them for robots [Cioran] |
2899 | The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency [Nietzsche] |
23065 | If only we could write like a reptile, of endless sensations and no concepts! [Cioran] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
18313 | The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word [Nietzsche] |
20133 | The 'motive' is superficial, and may even hide the antecedents of a deed [Nietzsche] |
23071 | We could only be responsible if we had consented before birth to who we are [Cioran] |
18326 | The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man [Nietzsche] |
23070 | We morally dissolve if we spend time with excessive beauty [Cioran] |
20101 | Without music life would be a mistake [Nietzsche] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
2902 | Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche] |
18311 | Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche] |
18324 | There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche] |
2904 | The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
2895 | The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche] |
18322 | When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche] |
2893 | In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche] |
18308 | A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche] |
2894 | Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche] |
18321 | To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche] |
18319 | Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche] |
2903 | A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche] |
2891 | Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
18327 | A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing [Nietzsche] |
15606 | Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger [Nietzsche] |
18328 | Invalids are parasites [Nietzsche] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
23074 | In anxiety people cling to what reinforces it, because it is a deep need [Cioran] |
23069 | Fear cures boredom, because it is stronger [Cioran] |
23062 | It is better to watch the hours pass, than trying to fill them [Cioran] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
18331 | Democracy is organisational power in decline [Nietzsche] |
18332 | The creation of institutions needs a determination which is necessarily anti-liberal [Nietzsche] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
2911 | True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals [Nietzsche] |
18320 | To renounce war is to renounce the grand life [Nietzsche] |
2908 | There is a need for educators who are themselves educated [Nietzsche] |
23067 | Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late [Cioran] |
18329 | Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it [Nietzsche] |
2905 | 'Purpose' is just a human fiction [Nietzsche] |
18312 | The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God' [Nietzsche] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |
2906 | By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world [Nietzsche] |
2901 | How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence? [Nietzsche] |
18325 | Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man [Nietzsche] |
23063 | The first man obviously found paradise unendurable [Cioran] |
18318 | People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one [Nietzsche] |