37 ideas
14888 | Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche] |
14863 | Unlike science, true wisdom involves good taste [Nietzsche] |
14890 | Suffering is the meaning of existence [Nietzsche] |
14861 | Philosophy ennobles the world, by producing an artistic conception of our knowledge [Nietzsche] |
14885 | The first aim of a philosopher is a life, not some works [Nietzsche] |
14887 | You should only develop a philosophy if you are willing to live by it [Nietzsche] |
14889 | Philosophy is pointless if it does not advocate, and live, a new way of life [Nietzsche] |
14862 | Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty [Nietzsche] |
14878 | It would better if there was no thought [Nietzsche] |
14881 | Why do people want philosophers? [Nietzsche] |
14876 | Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture [Nietzsche] |
14860 | Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics [Nietzsche] |
14859 | If philosophy controls science, then it has to determine its scope, and its value [Nietzsche] |
14880 | Logic is just slavery to language [Nietzsche] |
14869 | If some sort of experience is at the root of matter, then human knowledge is close to its essence [Nietzsche] |
22142 | In future, only logical limits can be placed on divine omnipotence [Anon (Par), by Boulter] |
14875 | Belief matters more than knowledge, and only begins when knowledge ceases [Nietzsche] |
14866 | It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears [Nietzsche] |
16716 | It is heresy to require self-evident foundational principles in order to be certain [Anon (Par)] |
14872 | Our knowledge is illogical, because it rests on false identities between things [Nietzsche] |
14879 | The most extreme scepticism is when you even give up logic [Nietzsche] |
14873 | If we find a hypothesis that explains many things, we conclude that it explains everything [Nietzsche] |
14868 | Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror [Nietzsche] |
14870 | We experience causation between willing and acting, and thereby explain conjunctions of changes [Nietzsche] |
14867 | It is just madness to think that the mind is supernatural (or even divine!) [Nietzsche] |
14884 | The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value) [Nietzsche] |
14886 | Education is contrary to human nature [Nietzsche] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
1866 | It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years [Anon (Par)] |
14883 | We should evaluate the past morally [Nietzsche] |
14882 | Protest against vivisection - living things should not become objects of scientific investigation [Nietzsche] |
14865 | We do not know the nature of one single causality [Nietzsche] |
14871 | Laws of nature are merely complex networks of relations [Nietzsche] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
1865 | It is heresy to teach that natural impossibilities cannot even be achieved by God [Anon (Par)] |
1864 | It is heresy to teach that we can know God by his essence in this mortal life [Anon (Par)] |
14864 | The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things [Nietzsche] |