8 ideas
6564 | To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine] |
23857 | People in power always try to increase their power [Weil] |
23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
23859 | True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil] |
23858 | War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |