12 ideas
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |