16 ideas
| 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] |
| 23877 | Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil] |
| 3644 | Two things being joined together doesn't prove they are the same [Descartes] |
| 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
| 3621 | Only judgement decides which of our senses are reliable [Descartes] |
| 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
| 23878 | Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 23879 | In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil] |
| 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] |
| 23880 | When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil] |
| 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
| 3637 | Ideas in God's mind only have value if he makes it so [Descartes] |