8 ideas
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
23857 | People in power always try to increase their power [Weil] |
23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
23859 | True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil] |
23858 | War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil] |
23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |