22 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
16764 | The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus] |
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] |
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] |