26 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
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] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
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] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [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] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |