31 ideas
22070 | Irony is consciousness of abundant chaos [Schlegel,F] |
22069 | Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F] |
21474 | Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation [Schopenhauer] |
21470 | For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will [Schopenhauer] |
21479 | Knowledge is not power! Ignorant people possess supreme authority [Schopenhauer] |
22068 | Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F] |
21476 | A priori propositions are those we could never be seriously motivated to challenge [Schopenhauer] |
21473 | All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable [Schopenhauer] |
21478 | Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises [Schopenhauer] |
21477 | We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer] |
21475 | All of our concepts are borrowed from perceptual knowledge [Schopenhauer] |
21372 | Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will [Schopenhauer] |
21488 | The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will [Schopenhauer] |
22030 | For poets free choice is supreme [Schlegel,F] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
21483 | Man is essentially a dreadful wild animal [Schopenhauer] |
22071 | True love is ironic, in the contrast between finite limitations and the infinity of love [Schlegel,F] |
21466 | Pleasure is weaker, and pain stronger, than we expect [Schopenhauer] |
21484 | A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action [Schopenhauer] |
21481 | Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices [Schopenhauer] |
21482 | The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty [Schopenhauer] |
22029 | Irony is the response to conflicts of involvement and attachment [Schlegel,F, by Pinkard] |
21480 | Boredom is only felt by those clever enough to need activity [Schopenhauer] |
21469 | Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact [Schopenhauer] |
21485 | The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another [Schopenhauer] |
21486 | Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
21487 | The freedom of the press to sell poison outweighs its usefulness [Schopenhauer] |
21471 | If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now [Schopenhauer] |
21467 | Would humanity still exist if sex wasn't both desired and pleasurable? [Schopenhauer] |
21472 | Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people [Schopenhauer] |
21468 | The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible [Schopenhauer] |