11 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |