39 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
21474 | Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation [Schopenhauer] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
21470 | For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will [Schopenhauer] |
21479 | Knowledge is not power! Ignorant people possess supreme authority [Schopenhauer] |
21476 | A priori propositions are those we could never be seriously motivated to challenge [Schopenhauer] |
21473 | All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable [Schopenhauer] |
21478 | Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises [Schopenhauer] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
21477 | We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
21475 | All of our concepts are borrowed from perceptual knowledge [Schopenhauer] |
21372 | Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will [Schopenhauer] |
21488 | The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will [Schopenhauer] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
21483 | Man is essentially a dreadful wild animal [Schopenhauer] |
9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
21466 | Pleasure is weaker, and pain stronger, than we expect [Schopenhauer] |
9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
21484 | A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action [Schopenhauer] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
21482 | The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty [Schopenhauer] |
21481 | Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices [Schopenhauer] |
9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
21480 | Boredom is only felt by those clever enough to need activity [Schopenhauer] |
21469 | Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact [Schopenhauer] |
9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
21485 | The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another [Schopenhauer] |
21486 | Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
21487 | The freedom of the press to sell poison outweighs its usefulness [Schopenhauer] |
21471 | If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now [Schopenhauer] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
21467 | Would humanity still exist if sex wasn't both desired and pleasurable? [Schopenhauer] |
21472 | Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people [Schopenhauer] |
21468 | The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible [Schopenhauer] |