24 ideas
| 19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
| 19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
| 23825 | We seek truth only because it is good [Weil] |
| 19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
| 19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
| 22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
| 22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
| 19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
| 19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
| 23826 | Beauty, goodness and truth are only achieved by applying full attention [Weil] |
| 23833 | The good is a nothingness, and yet real [Weil] |
| 23808 | There are two goods - the absolute good we want, and the reachable opposite of evil [Weil] |
| 21093 | Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume] |
| 22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
| 21091 | It would be absurd if even a free constitution did not impose restraints, for the public good [Hume] |
| 23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
| 21092 | Nobility either share in the power of the whole, or they compose the power of the whole [Hume] |
| 23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
| 23809 | Our only social duty is to try to limit evil [Weil] |
| 23807 | The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry [Weil] |
| 23810 | Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil] |
| 23811 | If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil] |
| 19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
| 23765 | The soul is the intrinsic value of a human [Weil] |