24 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
18469 | God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it [Smith,B] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |