55 ideas
354 | Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato] |
14888 | Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche] |
14863 | Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste [Nietzsche] |
14890 | Suffering is the meaning of existence [Nietzsche] |
14861 | Philosophy ennobles the world, by producing an artistic conception of our knowledge [Nietzsche] |
14885 | The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works [Nietzsche] |
14887 | You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it [Nietzsche] |
370 | Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato] |
14889 | Philosophy is pointless if it does not advocate, and live, a new way of life [Nietzsche] |
14862 | Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty [Nietzsche] |
14878 | It would better if there was no thought [Nietzsche] |
14881 | Why do people want philosophers? [Nietzsche] |
14876 | Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture [Nietzsche] |
14860 | Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics [Nietzsche] |
14859 | If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value [Nietzsche] |
350 | In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts [Plato] |
362 | The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument [Plato] |
14880 | Logic is just slavery to language [Nietzsche] |
13155 | If you add one to one, which one becomes two, or do they both become two? [Plato] |
14869 | If some sort of experience is at the root of matter, then human knowledge is close to its essence [Nietzsche] |
21347 | If Simmias is taller than Socrates, that isn't a feature that is just in Simmias [Plato] |
360 | We must have a prior knowledge of equality, if we see 'equal' things and realise they fall short of it [Plato] |
1 | There is only one source for all beauty [Plato] |
368 | Other things are named after the Forms because they participate in them [Plato] |
16516 | The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers [Plato] |
14875 | Belief matters more than knowledge, and only begins when knowledge ceases [Nietzsche] |
19553 | Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne] |
14866 | It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears [Nietzsche] |
357 | People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram [Plato] |
359 | If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original [Plato] |
9343 | To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul [Plato] |
19551 | How can we know the heavyweight implications of normal knowledge? Must we distort 'knowledge'? [Hawthorne] |
19552 | We wouldn't know the logical implications of our knowledge if small risks added up to big risks [Hawthorne] |
19554 | Denying closure is denying we know P when we know P and Q, which is absurd in simple cases [Hawthorne] |
14872 | Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things [Nietzsche] |
14879 | The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic [Nietzsche] |
15859 | To investigate the causes of things, study what is best for them [Plato] |
14873 | If we find a hypothesis that explains many things, we conclude that it explains everything [Nietzsche] |
13154 | Do we think and experience with blood, air or fire, or could it be our brain? [Plato] |
14868 | Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror [Nietzsche] |
14870 | We experience causation between willing and acting, and thereby explain conjunctions of changes [Nietzsche] |
364 | One soul can't be more or less of a soul than another [Plato] |
14867 | It is just madness to think that the mind is supernatural (or even divine!) [Nietzsche] |
14884 | The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value) [Nietzsche] |
361 | It is a mistake to think that the most violent pleasure or pain is therefore the truest reality [Plato] |
351 | War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body [Plato] |
14886 | Education is contrary to human nature [Nietzsche] |
14883 | We should evaluate the past morally [Nietzsche] |
14882 | Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation [Nietzsche] |
13156 | Fancy being unable to distinguish a cause from its necessary background conditions! [Plato] |
14865 | We do not know the nature of one single causality [Nietzsche] |
14871 | Laws of nature are merely complex networks of relations [Nietzsche] |
369 | If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato] |
14864 | The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things [Nietzsche] |
363 | Whether the soul pre-exists our body depends on whether it contains the ultimate standard of reality [Plato] |