23 ideas
4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
15585 | Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science [Heidegger, by Polt] |
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
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] |
2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
4426 | A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
4425 | The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
20132 | To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche] |
20144 | Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
2889 | One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [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] |
2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |