13 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
3653 | My Meditations are the complete foundation of my physics [Descartes] |
4736 | Truth is such a transcendentally clear notion that it cannot be further defined [Descartes] |
22167 | Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas] |
22117 | Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews] |
22118 | Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews] |
4348 | Love, and do what you will [Augustine] |
7821 | Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
22119 | Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews] |
22116 | Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews] |
3652 | I can't prove the soul is indestructible, only that it is separate from the mortal body [Descartes] |
19338 | Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins] |