31 ideas
21844 | The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names? [Deleuze] |
21849 | Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine [Deleuze] |
1642 | We must fight fiercely for knowledge, understanding and intelligence [Plato] |
21845 | Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state [Deleuze] |
1645 | The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical [Plato] |
21839 | When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything [Deleuze] |
21841 | We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things. [Deleuze] |
287 | Good analysis involves dividing things into appropriate forms without confusion [Plato] |
21842 | Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it [Deleuze] |
21850 | Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path [Deleuze] |
1644 | Dialectic should only be taught to those who already philosophise well [Plato] |
20478 | In discussion a person's opinions are shown to be in conflict, leading to calm self-criticism [Plato] |
18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
21838 | Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems [Deleuze] |
11278 | What does 'that which is not' refer to? [Plato] |
1643 | If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence [Plato] |
21847 | Before Being there is politics [Deleuze] |
7022 | To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato] |
1641 | Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato] |
10784 | Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato] |
16122 | Good thinkers spot forms spread through things, or included within some larger form [Plato] |
10422 | The not-beautiful is part of the beautiful, though opposed to it, and is just as real [Plato] |
15855 | If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it [Plato] |
1637 | A soul without understanding is ugly [Plato] |
18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
21840 | A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid) [Deleuze] |
21843 | People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight' [Deleuze] |
1636 | Wickedness is an illness of the soul [Plato] |
21848 | Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system [Deleuze] |
1638 | Didactic education is hard work and achieves little [Plato] |