14 ideas
21461 | I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views [Lewis] |
23825 | We seek truth only because it is good [Weil] |
15941 | For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer] |
18247 | Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro] |
23826 | Beauty, goodness and truth are only achieved by applying full attention [Weil] |
23833 | The good is a nothingness, and yet real [Weil] |
23808 | There are two goods - the absolute good we want, and the reachable opposite of evil [Weil] |
23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
23809 | Our only social duty is to try to limit evil [Weil] |
23807 | The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry [Weil] |
23810 | Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil] |
23811 | If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil] |
23765 | The soul is the intrinsic value of a human [Weil] |