22 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
24084 | Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
24092 | I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche] |
24089 | Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
24090 | Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
24087 | People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche] |
24091 | The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
24093 | We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche] |
24085 | For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche] |
24094 | Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
24086 | The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche] |
24088 | See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
24095 | Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |