37 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
23250 | Desired responsible actions result either from rational or from irrational desire [Aristotle] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
5847 | It is the role of dialectic to survey syllogisms [Aristotle] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
5862 | A single counterexample is enough to prove that a truth is not necessary [Aristotle] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
5854 | Nobody fears a disease which nobody has yet caught [Aristotle] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
5849 | Rhetoric is a political offshoot of dialectic and ethics [Aristotle] |
5851 | Pentathletes look the most beautiful, because they combine speed and strength [Aristotle] |
5858 | Men are physically prime at thirty-five, and mentally prime at forty-nine [Aristotle] |
5855 | We all feel universal right and wrong, independent of any community or contracts [Aristotle] |
5850 | Happiness is composed of a catalogue of internal and external benefits [Aristotle] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
5856 | Self-interest is a relative good, but nobility an absolute good [Aristotle] |
5848 | All good things can be misused, except virtue [Aristotle] |
5853 | The best virtues are the most useful to others [Aristotle] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
5857 | The young feel pity from philanthropy, but the old from self-concern [Aristotle] |
5859 | Rich people are mindlessly happy [Aristotle] |
5852 | The four constitutions are democracy (freedom), oligarchy (wealth), aristocracy (custom), tyranny (security) [Aristotle] |
1660 | It is noble to avenge oneself on one's enemies, and not come to terms with them [Aristotle] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
5861 | People assume events cause what follows them [Aristotle] |
8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |