17 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
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] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
15710 | Bohr explained the periodic table and chemical properties of elements, using the quantum atom [Kumar] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
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] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
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] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
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] |