95 ideas
18330 | Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age [Nietzsche] |
2900 | I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche] |
2913 | Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche] |
2909 | Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche] |
15447 | We shouldn't always follow where the argument leads! [Lewis on Plato] |
2892 | Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche] |
243 | It is foolish to quarrel with the mind's own reasoning processes [Plato] |
241 | We ought to follow where the argument leads us [Plato] |
2896 | I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness' [Nietzsche] |
21264 | Mortals are incapable of being fully rational [Plato] |
2897 | With dialectics the rabble gets on top [Nietzsche] |
2898 | Anything which must first be proved is of little value [Nietzsche] |
251 | Truth has the supreme value, for both gods and men [Plato] |
18317 | The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world [Nietzsche] |
18315 | We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche] |
18316 | The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality [Nietzsche] |
18314 | In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche] |
21259 | To grasp a thing we need its name, its definition, and what it really is [Plato] |
18309 | The evidence of the senses is falsified by reason [Nietzsche] |
17503 | Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides] |
18323 | Any explanation will be accepted as true if it gives pleasure and a feeling of power [Nietzsche] |
21260 | Soul is what is defined by 'self-generating motion' [Plato] |
18310 | The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts [Nietzsche] |
276 | My individuality is my soul, which carries my body around [Plato] |
20368 | There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment [Nietzsche] |
2899 | The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency [Nietzsche] |
18313 | The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word [Nietzsche] |
20133 | The 'motive' is superficial, and may even hide the antecedents of a deed [Nietzsche] |
249 | People who value beauty above virtue insult the soul by placing the body above it [Plato] |
18326 | The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man [Nietzsche] |
20101 | Without music life would be a mistake [Nietzsche] |
2902 | Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche] |
18311 | Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche] |
18324 | There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche] |
2904 | The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche] |
18321 | To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche] |
2893 | In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche] |
2894 | Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche] |
18322 | When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche] |
18308 | A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche] |
2895 | The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche] |
18319 | Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche] |
2903 | A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche] |
265 | An action is only just if it is performed by someone with a just character and outlook [Plato] |
269 | Attempted murder is like real murder, but we should respect the luck which avoided total ruin [Plato] |
2891 | Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche] |
240 | It would be strange if the gods rewarded those who experienced the most pleasure in life [Plato] |
264 | The conquest of pleasure is the noblest victory of all [Plato] |
18327 | A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing [Nietzsche] |
263 | The only worthwhile life is one devoted to physical and moral perfection [Plato] |
253 | Every crime is the result of excessive self-love [Plato] |
4332 | Virtue is a concord of reason and emotion, with pleasure and pain trained to correct ends [Plato] |
248 | A serious desire for moral excellence is very rare indeed [Plato] |
235 | Virtue is the aim of all laws [Plato] |
277 | The Guardians must aim to discover the common element in the four cardinal virtues [Plato] |
254 | Excessive laughter and tears must be avoided [Plato] |
266 | Injustice is the mastery of the soul by bad feelings, even if they do not lead to harm [Plato] |
15606 | Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger [Nietzsche] |
18328 | Invalids are parasites [Nietzsche] |
256 | Virtue and great wealth are incompatible [Plato] |
242 | The best people are produced where there is no excess of wealth or poverty [Plato] |
245 | Totalitarian states destroy friendships and community spirit [Plato] |
18331 | Democracy is organisational power in decline [Nietzsche] |
18332 | The creation of institutions needs a determination which is necessarily anti-liberal [Nietzsche] |
239 | Education in virtue produces citizens who are active but obedient [Plato] |
262 | Men and women should qualify equally for honours on merit [Plato] |
1402 | Friendship is impossible between master and slave, even if they are made equal [Plato] |
236 | Sound laws achieve the happiness of those who observe them [Plato] |
2911 | True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals [Nietzsche] |
259 | Justice is granting the equality which unequals deserve [Plato] |
18320 | To renounce war is to renounce the grand life [Nietzsche] |
238 | Children's games should channel their pleasures into adult activity [Plato] |
260 | Control of education is the key office of state, and should go to the best citizen [Plato] |
257 | Mathematics has the widest application of any subject on the curriculum [Plato] |
2908 | There is a need for educators who are themselves educated [Nietzsche] |
4331 | Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why [Plato] |
250 | The best way to educate the young is not to rebuke them, but to set a good example [Plato] |
18329 | Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it [Nietzsche] |
275 | Creation is not for you; you exist for the sake of creation [Plato] |
2905 | 'Purpose' is just a human fiction [Nietzsche] |
273 | Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion [Plato] |
8004 | In 'The Laws', to obey the law is to be obey god [Plato, by MacIntyre] |
18312 | The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God' [Nietzsche] |
21257 | Self-generating motion is clearly superior to all other kinds of motion [Plato] |
21258 | The only possible beginning for the endless motions of reality is something self-generated [Plato] |
21261 | Self-moving soul has to be the oldest thing there is [Plato] |
274 | Soul must be the cause of all the opposites, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness [Plato] |
21263 | If all the motions of nature reflect calculations of reason, then the best kind of soul must direct it [Plato] |
278 | If astronomical movements are seen as necessary instead of by divine will, this leads to atheism [Plato] |
2906 | By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world [Nietzsche] |
21265 | The heavens must be full of gods, controlling nature either externally or from within [Plato] |
21262 | There must be at least two souls controlling the cosmos, one doing good, the other the opposite [Plato] |
2901 | How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence? [Nietzsche] |
18325 | Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man [Nietzsche] |
18318 | People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one [Nietzsche] |