19 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 7396 | Hobbes created English-language philosophy [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
| 16638 | The qualities of the world are mere appearances; reality is the motions which cause them [Hobbes] |
| 16688 | Evidence is conception, which is imagination, which proceeds from the senses [Hobbes] |
| 7405 | Experience can't prove universal truths [Hobbes] |
| 7408 | It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
| 7410 | Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
| 7409 | Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck] |
| 4426 | A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
| 4425 | The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche] |
| 20132 | To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche] |
| 20144 | Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche] |
| 2889 | One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche] |
| 7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |
| 2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |