31 ideas
| 9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
| 6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
| 9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
| 9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
| 21495 | Theoretical and practical politics are both concerned with the best lives for individuals [Russell] |
| 12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
| 19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
| 9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
| 9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
| 19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
| 9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
| 9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
| 9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
| 21517 | Individuals need creativity, reverence for others, and self-respect [Russell] |
| 6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
| 9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
| 9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
| 9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
| 21522 | Democracy is inadequate without a great deal of devolution [Russell] |
| 21523 | We would not want UK affairs to be settled by a world parliament [Russell] |
| 21521 | Anarchy does not maximise liberty [Russell] |
| 21528 | Groups should be autonomous, with a neutral authority as arbitrator [Russell] |
| 21527 | On every new question the majority is always wrong at first [Russell] |
| 21526 | Unfortunately ordinary voters can't detect insincerity [Russell] |
| 21525 | When the state is the only employer, there is no refuge from the prejudices of other people [Russell] |
| 21518 | Men unite in pursuit of material things, and idealise greed as part of group loyalty [Russell] |
| 21519 | We need security and liberty, and then encouragement of creativity [Russell] |
| 21524 | The right to own land gives a legal right to a permanent income [Russell] |
| 9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
| 19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |
| 21520 | That our heaven is a dull place reflects the misery of excessive work in life [Russell] |