42 ideas
| 7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
| 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] |
| 23853 | Truth is not a object we love - it is the radiant manifestation of reality [Weil] |
| 23855 | Creation produced a network or web of determinations [Weil] |
| 7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
| 7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
| 22868 | The value and truth of knowledge are measured by success in activity [Dewey] |
| 22865 | Habits constitute the self [Dewey] |
| 7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
| 23848 | The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacreligious; beauty should nourish [Weil] |
| 7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
| 23854 | Beauty is the proof of what is good [Weil] |
| 7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
| 22871 | The good people are those who improve; the bad are those who deteriorate [Dewey] |
| 23837 | Respect is our only obligation, which can only be expressed through deeds, not words [Weil] |
| 23844 | The most important human need is to have multiple roots [Weil] |
| 23838 | The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs [Weil] |
| 23836 | Obligations only bind individuals, not collectives [Weil] |
| 23843 | Even the poorest should feel collective ownership, and participation in grand display [Weil] |
| 23840 | A citizen should be able to understand the whole of society [Weil] |
| 23846 | Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers [Weil] |
| 23839 | A lifelong head of society should only be a symbol, not a ruler [Weil] |
| 7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
| 22876 | Democracy is the development of human nature when it shares in the running of communal activities [Dewey] |
| 22875 | Democracy is not just a form of government; it is a mode of shared living [Dewey] |
| 7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
| 23842 | Party politics in a democracy can't avoid an anti-democratic party [Weil] |
| 22874 | Individuality is only developed within groups [Dewey] |
| 7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
| 23847 | Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population [Weil] |
| 23845 | The capitalists neglect the people and the nation, and even their own interests [Weil] |
| 23841 | By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil] |
| 23835 | People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil] |
| 23852 | To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil] |
| 23850 | The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war [Weil] |
| 23851 | Education is essentially motivation [Weil] |
| 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] |
| 7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |
| 23849 | Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light [Weil] |