35 ideas
23064 | So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting [Cioran] |
1642 | We must fight fiercely for knowledge, understanding and intelligence [Plato] |
23072 | Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran] |
1645 | The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical [Plato] |
23075 | A text explained ceases to be a text [Cioran] |
1644 | Dialectic should only be taught to those who already philosophise well [Plato] |
287 | Good analysis involves dividing things into appropriate forms without confusion [Plato] |
20478 | In discussion a person's opinions are shown to be in conflict, leading to calm self-criticism [Plato] |
23066 | Negation doesn't arise from reasoning, but from deep instincts [Cioran] |
11278 | What does 'that which is not' refer to? [Plato] |
1643 | If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence [Plato] |
23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
7022 | To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato] |
23068 | People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran] |
1641 | Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato] |
10784 | Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato] |
16122 | Good thinkers spot forms spread through things, or included within some larger form [Plato] |
10422 | The not-beautiful is part of the beautiful, though opposed to it, and is just as real [Plato] |
15855 | If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it [Plato] |
23073 | Convictions are failures to study anything thoroughly [Cioran] |
23078 | Opinions are fine, but having convictions means something has gone wrong [Cioran] |
1637 | A soul without understanding is ugly [Plato] |
23076 | If people always acted without words we would take them for robots [Cioran] |
23065 | If only we could write like a reptile, of endless sensations and no concepts! [Cioran] |
23071 | We could only be responsible if we had consented before birth to who we are [Cioran] |
23070 | We morally dissolve if we spend time with excessive beauty [Cioran] |
1636 | Wickedness is an illness of the soul [Plato] |
23074 | In anxiety people cling to what reinforces it, because it is a deep need [Cioran] |
23069 | Fear cures boredom, because it is stronger [Cioran] |
23062 | It is better to watch the hours pass, than trying to fill them [Cioran] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
1638 | Didactic education is hard work and achieves little [Plato] |
23067 | Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late [Cioran] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
23063 | The first man obviously found paradise unendurable [Cioran] |