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All the ideas for 'Pens��es', 'The Origin of the Work of Art' and 'Ecce Homo'

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23 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
4424 A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent
15585 Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
6675 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal]
12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
22011 The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal]
19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
6681 We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation
6676 Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
6680 It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
6677 Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
2886 The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck
4426 A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
6678 We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion
4425 The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst
20732 If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
20132 To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
20144 Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy
6682 Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
6679 It is not good to be too free [Pascal]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
2889 One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
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]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
2887 I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche]