13 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |