14 ideas
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero] |
2673 | There cannot be more than one truth [Cicero] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
2669 | Dialectic assumes that all statements are either true or false, but self-referential paradoxes are a big problem [Cicero] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero] |
2665 | How can there be a memory of what is false? [Cicero] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
20800 | Every true presentation can have a false one of the same quality [Cicero] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
2672 | Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |