12 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
7848 | Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |