34 ideas
| 22659 | It is wisdom to believe what you desire, because belief is needed to achieve it [James] |
| 19695 | The devil was wise as an angel, and lost no knowledge when he rebelled [Whitcomb] |
| 8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
| 8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
| 22657 | All good philosophers start from a dumb conviction about which truths can be revealed [James] |
| 8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
| 22647 | A complete system is just a classification of the whole world's ingredients [James] |
| 22648 | A single explanation must have a single point of view [James] |
| 8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
| 22644 | Our greatest pleasure is the economy of reducing chaotic facts to one single fact [James] |
| 8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
| 22649 | Classification can only ever be for a particular purpose [James] |
| 8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
| 22655 | Scientific genius extracts more than other people from the same evidence [James] |
| 22658 | Experimenters assume the theory is true, and stick to it as long as result don't disappoint [James] |
| 22654 | We can't know if the laws of nature are stable, but we must postulate it or assume it [James] |
| 22656 | Trying to assess probabilities by mere calculation is absurd and impossible [James] |
| 22646 | We have a passion for knowing the parts of something, rather than the whole [James] |
| 22652 | The mind has evolved entirely for practical interests, seen in our reflex actions [James] |
| 22651 | Dogs' curiosity only concerns what will happen next [James] |
| 8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
| 8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
| 22650 | How can the ground of rationality be itself rational? [James] |
| 22643 | It seems that we feel rational when we detect no irrationality [James] |
| 8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
| 22660 | Evolution suggests prevailing or survival as a new criterion of right and wrong [James] |
| 8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
| 8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
| 8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
| 8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
| 22645 | Understanding by means of causes is useless if they are not reduced to a minimum number [James] |
| 8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
| 8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |
| 22653 | Early Christianity says God recognises the neglected weak and tender impulses [James] |