38 ideas
| 23755 | Genius and love of truth are always accompanied by great humility [Weil] |
| 23747 | What is sacred is not a person, but the whole physical human being [Weil] |
| 5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
| 5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
| 23756 | The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil] |
| 20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
| 21059 | General rules of action also need a judgement about when to apply them [Kant] |
| 23758 | Beauty is an attractive mystery, leaving nothing to be desired [Weil] |
| 23760 | All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil] |
| 23748 | The sacred in every human is their expectation of good rather than evil [Weil] |
| 23759 | Everything which originates in love is beautiful [Weil] |
| 23762 | Evil is transmitted by comforts and pleasures, but mostly by doing harm to people [Weil] |
| 21061 | Duty does not aim at an end, but gives rise to universal happiness as aim of the will [Kant] |
| 5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
| 21060 | It can't be a duty to strive after the impossible [Kant] |
| 21062 | The will's motive is the absolute law itself, and moral feeling is receptivity to law [Kant] |
| 21071 | There can be no restraints on freedom if reason does not reveal some basic rights [Kant] |
| 21063 | Personal contracts are for some end, but a civil state contract involves a duty to share [Kant] |
| 21068 | There must be a unanimous contract that citizens accept majority decisions [Kant] |
| 21069 | A contract is theoretical, but it can guide rulers to make laws which the whole people will accept [Kant] |
| 21070 | A law is unjust if the whole people could not possibly agree to it [Kant] |
| 21067 | A citizen must control his own life, and possess property or an important skill [Kant] |
| 21064 | A lawful civil state must embody freedom, equality and independence for its members [Kant] |
| 23750 | It is not more money which the wretched members of society need [Weil] |
| 23749 | The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves [Weil] |
| 23753 | People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil] |
| 21066 | Citizens can rise to any rank that talent, effort and luck can achieve [Kant] |
| 23751 | Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil] |
| 23752 | Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil] |
| 21065 | You can't make a contract renouncing your right to make contracts! [Kant] |
| 23757 | The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love [Weil] |
| 23761 | Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality) [Weil] |
| 23764 | The only thing in society worse than crime is repressive justice [Weil] |
| 23763 | Punishment aims at the good for men who don't desire it [Weil] |
| 21072 | The people (who have to fight) and not the head of state should declare a war [Kant] |
| 5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
| 23754 | The only choice is between supernatural good, or evil [Weil] |
| 5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |