38 ideas
21474 | Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation [Schopenhauer] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
21470 | For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will [Schopenhauer] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
21479 | Knowledge is not power! Ignorant people possess supreme authority [Schopenhauer] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
21476 | A priori propositions are those we could never be seriously motivated to challenge [Schopenhauer] |
21473 | All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable [Schopenhauer] |
21478 | Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises [Schopenhauer] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
21477 | We don't control our own thinking [Schopenhauer] |
21475 | All of our concepts are borrowed from perceptual knowledge [Schopenhauer] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
21372 | Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will [Schopenhauer] |
21488 | The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will [Schopenhauer] |
21483 | Man is essentially a dreadful wild animal [Schopenhauer] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
21466 | Pleasure is weaker, and pain stronger, than we expect [Schopenhauer] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
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] |
21484 | A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action [Schopenhauer] |
21482 | The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty [Schopenhauer] |
21481 | Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices [Schopenhauer] |
21480 | Boredom is only felt by those clever enough to need activity [Schopenhauer] |
21469 | Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact [Schopenhauer] |
21485 | The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another [Schopenhauer] |
21486 | Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing [Schopenhauer] |
21487 | The freedom of the press to sell poison outweighs its usefulness [Schopenhauer] |
21471 | If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now [Schopenhauer] |
21467 | Would humanity still exist if sex wasn't both desired and pleasurable? [Schopenhauer] |
21472 | Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people [Schopenhauer] |
21468 | The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible [Schopenhauer] |