15 ideas
| 7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
| 16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
| 16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
| 7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
| 19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
| 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 23903 | When we admire a work, we see ourselves as its creator [Weil] |
| 7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
| 7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 23901 | Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil] |
| 7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |
| 23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
| 23902 | I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil] |