33 ideas
162 | Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? [Plato] |
160 | The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things [Plato] |
166 | A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility [Plato] |
16051 | Life has a new supervenient relation, which alters its underlying physical events [Morgan,L] |
7953 | Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato] |
16121 | I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things [Plato] |
153 | It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions [Plato] |
154 | We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms [Plato] |
151 | True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience [Plato] |
165 | If the apparent facts strongly conflict with probability, it is in everyone's interests to suppress the facts [Plato] |
9296 | The soul is self-motion [Plato] |
23997 | Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Plato, by Goldie] |
19451 | When absorbed in deep reflection, is your reason in control, or is it you? [Feuerbach] |
159 | Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker [Plato] |
5946 | 'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred on Plato] |
158 | An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker [Plato] |
155 | Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms [Plato] |
143 | The two ruling human principles are the natural desire for pleasure, and an acquired love of virtue [Plato] |
19450 | Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life [Feuerbach] |
157 | Most pleasure is release from pain, and is therefore not worthwhile [Plato] |
144 | Reason impels us towards excellence, which teaches us self-control [Plato] |
156 | Bad people are never really friends with one another [Plato] |
148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato] |
19448 | Consciousness is said to distinguish man from animals - consciousness of his own species [Feuerbach] |
152 | The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth [Plato] |
19454 | A God needs justice, kindness and wisdom, but those concepts don't depend on the concept of God [Feuerbach] |
150 | We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves [Plato] |
19452 | The nature of God is an expression of human nature [Feuerbach] |
19453 | If love, goodness and personality are human, the God who is their source is anthropomorphic [Feuerbach] |
149 | There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings [Plato] |
19455 | Today's atheism will tomorrow become a religion [Feuerbach] |
19449 | Religion is the consciousness of the infinite [Feuerbach] |
146 | Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal [Plato] |