42 ideas
6319 | Wise people choose inaction and silence [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6325 | One who knows does not speak; one who speaks does not know [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
6321 | Vulgar people are alert; I alone am muddled [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
6328 | To know yet to think that one does not know is best [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6323 | Pursuit of learning increases activity; the Way decreases it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
6331 | Truth is not beautiful; beautiful speech is not truthful [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7352 | Jesus said learning was unnecessary, and only the spirit of the Law was needed [Jesus, by Johnson,P] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
6330 | One with no use for life is wiser than one who values it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6292 | Love thy neighbour as thyself [Jesus] |
6327 | Do good to him who has done you an injury [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6289 | Love your enemies [Jesus] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
5356 | Treat others as you would have them treat you [Jesus] |
6286 | Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy [Jesus] |
23402 | The highest virtue is achieved without effort [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6324 | To gain in goodness, treat as good those who are good, and those who are not [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6290 | Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter heaven [Jesus] |
6322 | There is no crime greater than having too many desires [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
6287 | If you lust after a woman, you have committed adultery [Jesus] |
6285 | Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth [Jesus] |
6288 | Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek [Jesus] |
6293 | It is almost impossible for the rich to go to heaven [Jesus] |
6320 | The best rulers are invisible, the next admired, the next feared, and the worst are exploited [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
6329 | People are hard to govern because authorities love to do things [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
6326 | The better known the law, the more criminals there are [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
23401 | A military victory is not a thing of beauty [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
6291 | No one is good except God [Jesus] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |
7351 | Jesus turned the ideas of Hillel into a theology reduced to its moral elements [Jesus, by Johnson,P] |