23 ideas
2922 | All intelligent Romans were Epicureans [Nietzsche] |
23520 | Truth has had to be fought for, and normal life must be sacrificed to achieve it [Nietzsche] |
2914 | One must never ask whether truth is useful [Nietzsche] |
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23035 | The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH] |
2921 | Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
20138 | Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
20375 | Virtues must be highly personal; if not, it is merely respect for a concept [Nietzsche] |
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)] |
2915 | Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative [Nietzsche] |
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)] |
23037 | People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH] |
23043 | All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH] |
2920 | A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity [Nietzsche] |
2917 | Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things [Nietzsche] |
2918 | The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche] |
2919 | 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche] |
2916 | The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct [Nietzsche] |