7 ideas
| 19087 | The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce] |
| 23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
| 23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
| 23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
| 23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
| 23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |
| 19068 | Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford] |