18 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |