21 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
5435 | An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author [Schleiermacher, by Mautner] |
22028 | Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity [Schleiermacher] |
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] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
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] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
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] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |