30 ideas
14179 | The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families [Plato] |
6259 | Why can't a wise man doubt everything? [Montaigne] |
6263 | No wisdom could make us comfortably walk a wide beam if it was high in the air [Montaigne] |
6258 | Virtue is the distinctive mark of truth, and its greatest product [Montaigne] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
6262 | We lack some sense or other, and hence objects may have hidden features [Montaigne] |
1607 | Diotima said the Forms are the objects of desire in philosophical discourse [Plato, by Roochnik] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
174 | True opinion without reason is midway between wisdom and ignorance [Plato] |
6260 | Sceptics say there is truth, but no means of making or testing lasting judgements [Montaigne] |
6261 | The soul is in the brain, as shown by head injuries [Montaigne] |
180 | We call a person the same throughout life, but all their attributes change [Plato] |
181 | Only the gods stay unchanged; we replace our losses with similar acquisitions [Plato] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
4026 | Beauty is harmony with what is divine, and ugliness is lack of such harmony [Plato] |
172 | Love of ugliness is impossible [Plato] |
173 | Beauty and goodness are the same [Plato] |
183 | Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body [Plato] |
184 | Progress goes from physical beauty, to moral beauty, to the beauty of knowledge, and reaches absolute beauty [Plato] |
171 | Music is a knowledge of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm [Plato] |
176 | Love follows beauty, wisdom is exceptionally beautiful, so love follows wisdom [Plato] |
14177 | Love assists men in achieving merit and happiness [Plato] |
179 | Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good [Plato] |
177 | If a person is good they will automatically become happy [Plato] |
14178 | Happiness is secure enjoyment of what is good and beautiful [Plato] |
170 | The only slavery which is not dishonourable is slavery to excellence [Plato] |
182 | The first step on the right path is the contemplation of physical beauty when young [Plato] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |
175 | Gods are not lovers of wisdom, because they are already wise [Plato] |