13 ideas
23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
18203 | Avoid non-predicative classifications and definitions [Poincaré] |
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7359 | Excess and deficiency are equally at fault [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7361 | Men of the highest calibre avoid political life completely [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23393 | Confucianism assumes that all good developments have happened, and there is only one Way [Norden on Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |