12 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
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] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |