9 ideas
12741 | If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz] |
12740 | The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz] |
12721 | Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz] |
23903 | When we admire a work, we see ourselves as its creator [Weil] |
23901 | Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
23902 | I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil] |