9 ideas
13168 | My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz] |
13169 | I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz] |
13170 | The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz] |
13171 | Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz] |
12165 | Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton] |
12164 | Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
13167 | We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |